Author: David Schneider <david.schnei...@picle.org> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4381:6635c9a6375b Date: 2012-07-27 10:30 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/6635c9a6375b/
Log: write a bit about the motivation diff --git a/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex b/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex --- a/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex +++ b/talk/vmil2012/paper.tex @@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ light (to much?) on this topic. The contributions of this paper are: \todo{more motivation} +Based on the informal observation that guards are among the most common +operations in the traces produced by PyPy's tracing JIT and that guards are +operations that are associated with an overhead to maintain information about +state to be able to rebuild it, our goal is to present concrete numbers for the +frecuency and the overhead produced by guards, explain how they are implemented +in the diferent levels of PyPy's tracing JIT and explain the rationale behind +the desing decisions based on the numbers. \todo{extend} \todo{contributions, description of PyPy's guard architecture, analysis on benchmarks} \begin{itemize} _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit