Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 4:10 PM -0500 3/18/04, Mitchell N Charity wrote: >>It seemed nontrivial to reduce the number return continuation pmc's >>used in oofib.imc. So I instead added an _extra_, unused one, to the >>two already used in each fib method. >> >>Parrot ran 30% slower. (Optimized, unoptimized, and jit) >> >>Which suggests return continuation pmc driven memory management costs >>(gc and allocation) are currently a major, perhaps even dominant, >>factor in method invocation speed.
> Yow. Okay, thanks. That means it's time to dive into the think tank > and see what we can do about that. Which brings up again my warnocked question: How can return continuations get reused? Please provide some PASM code that enables my brain to follow your argument that we cant't simply cache them. leo
