On Mar 13, 2009, at 4:47 PM, John Engelhart wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Peter Ammon <pam...@apple.com> wrote:
Hi John,
Instead of storing each string individually into the heap, try
batching up,
say, 1k or so into a stack allocated buffer. Then use
objc_memmove_collectable() to move them in bulk into the heap at
the point
your stack allocated buffer gets full, or your scan finishes.
I actually did give this a shot, or something close to it. I tried
using just the stack (swapping NSAllocateCollectable() with alloca()),
but no joy- exactly the same times came out. Good call though.
That wasn't quite my suggestion, and I would not expect that to result
in any improvement. If you store an object through an arbitrary
pointer, the compiler will use a write barrier. I doubt the compiler
will figure out that because the memory came from alloca(), it is on
the stack.
The goal is for the compiler to not use individual write barriers at
all, and it won't for stack allocated buffers. So my suggestion is to
make a buffer that the compiler knows is on the stack:
id stackBuffer[1024];
Stores to that buffer will not go through write barriers. When that
buffer is full, use objc_memmove_collectable() to move it to the heap.
I wrote a quick test to try this and it resulted in a 10x speedup
compared to individual write barriers.
-Peter
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