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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
	Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: indirect threading for bytecode interpreter
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:27:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eiq04bm2.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtyywzblj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:13:10 -0400")

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I've profiled (using oprofile) Emacs running this a few times; typical
>> results show mark_object at 10-12% of runtime.  It is probably pretty
>> easy to reproduce this with a variety of elisp programs.

Stefan> So no matter how hard we try, we won't gain more than about 10% speed-up
Stefan> trying to optimize the GC.  Doesn't sound like a great motivator.

Yeah, though it does vary by workload.

re_match_2_internal is actually the top time user in my profiles, using
17-25% of the runtime.

Tom




      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-21 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 16:46 indirect threading for bytecode interpreter Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 19:20 ` Helmut Eller
2009-09-17 19:38   ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 20:41     ` Helmut Eller
2009-09-17 21:06       ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 22:48         ` Helmut Eller
2009-09-18  0:59         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-18  2:59           ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-17 20:43     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-17 20:57       ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-18 19:15 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-18 20:26   ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-21  1:58     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-09-21  3:17       ` Tom Tromey
2009-09-21 13:13         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-21 13:21           ` David Kastrup
2009-09-21 13:47             ` joakim
2009-09-21 14:46             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-21 14:27           ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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