From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: indirect threading for bytecode interpreter Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:26:16 -0600 Message-ID: References: <200909181915.n8IJFfw7006915@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Tom Tromey NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253305601 15578 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2009 20:26:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:26:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 18 22:26:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mok2L-0000Nk-WD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44674 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mok2L-0007f8-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mok2F-0007dk-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mok2A-0007Th-Kl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38108 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mok2A-0007TE-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42163) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mok28-0002Ew-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.18]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8IKQJCO011562; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8IKQD9J012555; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8IKQHFx021657; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id DD7A23782A5; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:26:16 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <200909181915.n8IJFfw7006915@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:15:41 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.18 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115470 Archived-At: >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nicolaescu writes: Dan> If your patch applies to emacs-22.3 (quite likely), and you are curious, Dan> you might want to test the performance there. I probably won't get to this. Dan> The overhead of mark_object should be lower in that version (it's Dan> higher in 23 because of the way charsets are represented). I would be interested if you, or anybody, has ideas on how to improve the performance of mark_object. That is, without a whole GC rewrite :-) Tom