Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reasonable time being:
> perl5.9.1 compiled with the same options as ponie uses, and -DPURIFY to force > similar malloc() behaviour runs all regression tests: Parrot built optimized? (perl Configure.pl --optimize ...) > so about half the speed. Currently ponie has 2 additional big overheads that > perl doesn't That's not too bad, when I see ... > 1: it's also allocating a PMC for every scalar, registering it at creation, > de-registering it when the reference count hits zero, and causing parrot > to make GC runs that will find no garbage two hash lookpus per variable create/destruction pair. But Parrot hopefully will find garbage from all your temp vars hopefully and recycle these... > As the code gets re-factored both these will go. Good. > Nicholas Clark leo
