Hi Paolo, on the hype of the micro benchmarking I started to look at GST (mostly to understand the VM and not so much in making it faster). It appears to me that when defining COMMON/UNCOMMON to nothing we get a speedup on the tinyBenchmark. So this means that either some of the COMMON/UNCOMMOM are placed incorrectly, or that the tinyBenchmark is not what we are optimizing for and that the COMMON/UNCOMMON are better for some workloads.
Would you be interested in knowing from where this difference is coming? I could build with gprof and then use lcov and their branch visualization. holger Before: 198180762 bytecodes/sec; 6070565 sends/sec After: 220286113 bytecodes/sec; 6342298 sends/sec PS: stable-3.2 as of yesterday, on a Fedora14/i686 system. _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
