First off, Great job! This is the kind of really great performance improvement that we've been needing, and plobsing delivers. I've been doing some limited testing here and everything is looking great. Getting this branch merged into master should be a big priority after the release.
--Andrew Whitworth On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Moritz Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/15/2011 03:43 AM, Peter Lobsinger wrote: >> Here are some of the improvements this branch brings: >> * rakudo perl6.pbc size: 65% smaller >> * rakudo hello-world machine instructions: 23% fewer >> * rakudo repl RSS: 33% less >> * parrot opsc.pbc (typical nqp program) size: 15% smaller > > * rakudo startup time: 20% less > >> moritz++ also reports that rakudo spectest is noticeably faster, >> however I have been unable to reproduce anything beyond roughly a 10% >> improvement (still feels downright glacial to me). > > Don't trust anything I said yesterday, I was under tremendous strain and > could barely type, let alone think :-) > > But yes, spectest on the branch still passes today, and 10% speedup > seems about right (and might come entirely from the reduced startup time). > > Thanks for the great improvements, > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
