On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2011, at 17:04 , Gabriel Scherer wrote: > > > Do you have more precise measurements on > > Also posting Marcell's timing results here for reference (taken from bug > 5324). > > > - the performance cost of this new allocator in the generated code? I > > suppose the results may vary between different architectures (eg. x86 > > is probably more sensitive to good allocation decisions than x86_64). > > - http://ps.informatik.uni-siegen.de/~meurer/tmp/compiletime_timings.pdf > contains a comparison of the ocamlopt invocations. > - http://ps.informatik.uni-siegen.de/~meurer/tmp/runtime_timings.pdf contains > comparison of the generated code. > > As can be seen from the results, amd64 is more sensitive to register > allocator changes than i386. Not really surprising to me. Would be > interesting to see how this affects PPC/Sparc/Mips, but we don't have > appropriate hardware available right now. Anyone with appropriate > hardware and some spare time? :-) >
I can test things on PPC/PPC64(well... CBE). -- mailto:[email protected] -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
