From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vhash speed thread safeness
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:34:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zjpsp86c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3150759.E8ExfKuC24@warperdoze
Hi, Stefan,
Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com> skribis:
> I did some tests witha C-based vhash implementation, it's possible to
> increse the speed by 30x compared to current vlist imlpementation in
> guile. It would be possible to get this speed today if one implemented
> vhash-assoc as a VM op. Anyway using the source as a standard lib will
> get you about 10x speed increase.
As we discussed, I don’t really like the idea of implementing that much
in C.
Also, I’d really like the optimization effort to be driven by actual
profiling data, such as C-level profiles of repeated calls to the
current ‘vhash-assoc’. Have you tried that?
> Another pressing need is that vhashes are not thread safe,
Section 2.8 of Bagwell’s paper proposes a simple solution. All that is
missing AFAICS is an atomic test-and-set VM op to implement it (which
may also be useful in other places.)
What do you think of this approach?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-29 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 16:21 vhash speed thread safeness Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-10-29 12:34 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-10-29 14:21 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2013-10-29 17:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-29 18:50 ` Ian Price
2014-03-24 20:59 ` Andy Wingo
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