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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:16:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv36ulsdut.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06d01a4b-9d98-df5b-be8a-aeda449acad7@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 7 Sep 2018 00:15:57 -0700")

> Although the first attached patch shrinks sizeof (struct Lisp_Maker) from 32
> to 24 bytes on x86 as requested, allocate_pseudovector still *allocates* 32
> bytes for the struct, as it rounds the size up to the next multiple of
> alignof (max_align_t), which is 16 on x86. It's not hard to change that to
> 8 (please see 2nd attached patch) but this causes a 20% CPU performance hit
> (!) to 'make compile-always' on my platform (AMD Phenom II X4 910e circa
> 2010, Fedora 28 x86-64, gcc -m32 -march=native), so I didn't install and
> can't recommend the 2nd attached patch.

Where does this 20% slow down come from?


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-07 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06  0:41 Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems Stefan Monnier
2018-09-06  6:51 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-06 12:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07  7:15     ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07  8:05       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 13:45         ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 14:12           ` GDB and compiler-operations (was: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems) Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 14:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 15:16             ` GDB and compiler-operations Andreas Schwab
2018-09-07 15:48             ` GDB and compiler-operations (was: Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems) Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 15:58               ` GDB and compiler-operations Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 17:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 17:15                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:59             ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-07 14:19           ` Lisp_Marker size on 32bit systems Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 16:27             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 17:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 18:13                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 18:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 19:05                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-07 12:16       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-09-07 19:04         ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-07 19:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 21:03             ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08  1:54               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08  3:04                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08  3:10                   ` Stefan Monnier

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