Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-17 Thread Isaac Gouy
On Mar 13, 10:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply. To be a little more specific, we have internally > tens of thousands of Perl modules. Before running them in production: > we profile these modules, pass them through a circular reference > detector (code that intercepts all allo

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-15 Thread Nicholas Clark
I've re-ordered things because gmail's love of top posting confuses the flow of the narrative. > On Mar 12, 5:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chromatic) wrote: > > On Monday 12 March 2007 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I wish I had better news for you, but I'm not sure anyone can answer your >

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-14 Thread ajr
>From ozgun: > > Inlining replies. > >> 1. What's the environment; Solaris, GNU/Linux, *nix, Windows? > > Linux. > >> 2. What hard information do you have on the resources being used? Have >> you been able to profile it? Pareto's Law applies surprisingly often. > > Tons. In fact, we have more infor

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-13 Thread Isaac Gouy
On Mar 13, 10:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply. To be a little more specific, we have internally > tens of thousands of Perl modules. Before running them in production: > we profile these modules, pass them through a circular reference > detector (code that intercepts all allo

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-13 Thread ozgune
Thanks for the reply. To be a little more specific, we have internally tens of thousands of Perl modules. Before running them in production: we profile these modules, pass them through a circular reference detector (code that intercepts all allocations, and at certain intervals walks over Perl's S

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-13 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 12 Mar 2007 14:29:49 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I'd like to get opinions from developers on this list. I'm looking into this system that executes massive amounts of Perl 5 code on a Perl 5.8 interpreter. The system burns tons of CPU while running Perl code, a

Re: Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-12 Thread chromatic
On Monday 12 March 2007 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish I had better news for you, but I'm not sure anyone can answer your questions easily without a lot more information. > I'd like to get opinions from developers on this list. I'm looking > into this system that executes massive amounts

Parrot, Perl 5 and performance

2007-03-12 Thread ozgune
Hi all, I'd like to get opinions from developers on this list. I'm looking into this system that executes massive amounts of Perl 5 code on a Perl 5.8 interpreter. The system burns tons of CPU while running Perl code, and I'm speculating on ways to improve our throughput (say, 50 billion inst per