Re: [PATCHish] Food for thought about allocation

2004-01-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:34 AM -0700 1/16/04, Luke Palmer wrote: I dearly wanted real Continuations to be faster, because I loathe RetContinuations. They suck. Honest. There really ought be no difference between a regular continuation and a return continuation. (I certainly can't think of a reason they should be d

Re: [PATCHish] Food for thought about allocation

2004-01-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Luke Palmer wrote: I did a little benchmark test today that had some enlightening results. First of all: did you compile Parrot optimized? Because: I thought the problem might be in the small object allocator, You actually have a similar thing, but mainly inlined. Object allocation and DOD need

[PATCHish] Food for thought about allocation

2004-01-16 Thread Luke Palmer
I did a little benchmark test today that had some enlightening results. I'll explain what my goal was, then show you said results, and finally a patch (not meant to be committed) and the benchmark programs themselves. I dearly wanted real Continuations to be faster, because I loathe RetContinuatio