Re: More thougths on DOD

2003-01-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:30 PM +0100 1/6/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: 1) for linear access half sized PMCs give double mark speed. This is in good relation to stress.pasm ... A region of the PMC pool that's entirely mark area would up the cache density by a factor of three or four. s/three

Question about the disassembler

2003-01-06 Thread James Michael DuPont
Dear fellow hackers, the "C" disassembler is crashing : mdupont@introspector:~/development/parrot/parrot$ ./disassemble t/pmc/sub_1.pbc disassemble: debug.c:1055: PDB_disassemble_op: Assertion `size + 20 < space' failed. Aborted And the perl dissambler works ! I have been looking into and it

Re: More thougths on DOD

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:30 PM +0100 1/6/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Attached test program shows some additional effects of PMC size and timing. A PMC is 32 byte, a SPMC is 16 byte, matching current and minimal PMC sizes for i386 (or a typical 32 bit system). 1) for linear access half sized PMCs give double mark spe

Re: Object semantics

2003-01-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:00 AM +0530 1/6/03, Gopal V wrote: If memory serves me right, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> Why would we want to avoid this? It looks exactly like what ought to >> happen. If you can provide that in-vm , it would be a lot faster ...(hmm, that's one argument that should convince you ;) Stru

perl6 testing on mingw32

2003-01-06 Thread James Michael DuPont
first of all : to run this, it needs a -I. second of all, the test has errors the Perl6grammar.pm did not return a true value at (eval 58) line 3. can be ignored, because via some magic, it is regenerated. I get the following error >>WHOA! Somehow you got a different number of results than test

More thougths on DOD

2003-01-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Attached test program shows some additional effects of PMC size and timing. A PMC is 32 byte, a SPMC is 16 byte, matching current and minimal PMC sizes for i386 (or a typical 32 bit system). 1) for linear access half sized PMCs give double mark speed. This is in good relation to stress.pasm 2) A