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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tooltips GC overhead
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 14:41:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io8plwx9.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfv3z5x8k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 04 Aug 2015 03:31:52 -0400")

On 4 Aug 2015, Stefan Monnier told this:

>>> The problem is that it would slow down functions like `cons'.
>> I don't see why it has to.
>
> I don't see how it wouldn't have to ;-)
>
>> And we could do that only when the memory profiler is invoked.
>
> AFAICT it would require an extra test somewhere in Fcons, and that
> test will always have to be performed.

The cost you're trying to defend against here is a mispredicted branch
and corresponding pipeline stall, so if you mark it with
__builtin_expect() (or analogue in other compilers) you can make the
'profiler off' case the predicted branch, and its cost when off should
drop to nearly zero.

(Or so it seems to me.)

-- 
NULL && (void)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-08 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28 12:45 Tooltips GC overhead martin rudalics
2015-07-28 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-28 15:09   ` martin rudalics
2015-07-28 23:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-29  7:18   ` martin rudalics
2015-07-29 14:29     ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-29 15:40       ` martin rudalics
2015-07-29 16:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-29 18:05           ` martin rudalics
2015-07-29 21:15             ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-30  6:00               ` martin rudalics
2015-07-30  7:08               ` martin rudalics
2015-07-30  7:19                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-30  9:05                   ` martin rudalics
2015-07-30 16:36                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-30 19:53                       ` martin rudalics
2015-07-30 23:09                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-30 23:33                           ` Drew Adams
2015-07-31  6:48                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-07-31  6:47                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06  9:21                     ` martin rudalics
2016-03-08  8:02                       ` martin rudalics
2015-08-01 10:49               ` martin rudalics
2015-08-03 10:34                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-03 14:56                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-03 21:13                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-04  2:38                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-04  7:31                         ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-04 13:28                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-07 14:52                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-07 15:23                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-07 17:26                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-07 18:20                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-07 21:25                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-08  6:46                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08  7:01                                         ` David Kastrup
2015-08-07 18:26                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-08-07 18:59                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-08 13:41                           ` Nix [this message]
2015-08-08 16:10                             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-08 16:13                               ` David Kastrup
2015-08-10 17:05                                 ` Nix
2015-08-10 17:44                                   ` David Kastrup
2015-07-29 16:45         ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-29 18:05           ` martin rudalics
2015-07-29 21:17             ` Paul Eggert
2015-07-30  6:00               ` martin rudalics

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