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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google summer of Code proposal
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:36:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903310136.16374.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C79A54.5020406@inria.fr>

On Monday 23 March 2009 14:19:00 Xavier Leroy wrote:
> "But shadow stacks are the only way to go for GC interface!"
>    No, it's probably the worst approach performance-wise; even a
>    conservative GC should work better.

I blogged a quick analysis of the performance of HLVM's current shadow stack 
code:

http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/current-shadow-stack-overheads-in-hlvm.html

There is a lot of scope for optimization but these results were enlightening 
to show where the effort should be put. In particular, shadow stack updates 
by the mutator (and not the collector, as I had incorrectly assumed) account 
for the entire performance difference between OCaml and HLVM on the 10-queens 
benchmark.

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 12:39 Andrey Riabushenko
2009-03-21 13:01 ` [Caml-list] " Seo Sanghyeon
2009-03-21 13:47   ` Andrey Riabushenko
2009-03-21 14:51     ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-21 20:49       ` Joel Reymont
2009-03-21 21:35         ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-21 13:38 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-21 20:43   ` Joel Reymont
2009-03-21 21:28     ` Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-23 17:23       ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
2009-03-21 22:21     ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2009-03-22  0:12 ` Fermin Reig
2009-03-23 14:19 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-03-23 19:38   ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-24 15:39     ` Xavier Leroy
2009-03-30 15:42       ` Nicolas Cannasse
2009-03-30 15:56         ` Joel Reymont
2009-03-30 21:21           ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-31  0:36   ` Jon Harrop [this message]
     [not found] <20090321204943.E2ACCBBFA@yquem.inria.fr>
2009-03-21 21:45 ` Andrey Riabushenko

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