From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Tyler Dodge <tyler@tdodge.consulting>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conses performance improved by 50%?
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 20:10:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jrsufoa.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42ba5e8a-8a26-4afd-ab59-efbb967e8a24@app.fastmail.com>
"Tyler Dodge" <tyler@tdodge.consulting> writes:
> Since writing that blogpost, I did attempt a few variations of adding prefetch
> instructions in sweep_conses, but all of the variants I tried ended up having
> significantly worse performance characteristics than omitting them. That makes
> it a bit harder for me to believe that it's attributable to cache locality, but like
> you said, there are a number of other reasons that could be the actual cause.
May I know if there have been any progress on this?
Is there any help/testing needed?
GC is really making a big impact on Emacs performance. I believe that
many people would appreciate even few percent overall speed-ups if they
can be achieved as easily as described in the post. Even if only on
certain builds.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-11 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-29 5:07 "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conses performance improved by 50%? Stefan Kangas
2022-10-29 5:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-29 5:41 ` Po Lu
2022-10-29 6:07 ` Tyler Dodge
2022-10-29 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-30 0:53 ` Po Lu
2023-02-11 20:10 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-02-12 21:58 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-02-13 20:07 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
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