I noticed the large amount of allocation going on when I was using mandelbrot to test my fixes to the visualizer last week -- I'll take a look. I wrote an allocation hotspot profiler tool that may end up as part of the visualizer in some form, so I can try running it on your code.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > I've been trying to use the new futures visualizer (which is great) to > improve my parallel version of the mandelbrot benchmark > (collects/tests/racket/shootout/mandelbrot-futures.rkt). My current > code is attached. You can run it like this: > > $ racket mand.rkt 4000 8 # 8 is the number of futures to use. > > The visualizer shows that each future syncs thousands of times for > allocation. However, I can't find the allocation in the loop at all > (even in the decompiler output). Does anyone have any suggestions on > what might be allocating here, or any strategies I can use for finding > the allocation? > -- > sam th > sa...@ccs.neu.edu > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > >
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