On Mar 27, 2010, at 17:16 , laurent laffont wrote: >> I would love that the official Linux VM has: >> >> - that thing about the gnufication >> I did that when compiling MacOS VM. >> Read this link (step 4 for example) >> >> http://www.squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/Mac%20OS/vm/Documentation/readme.txt?rev=1984&view=auto >> >> does it make sense also in Linux VM ? which are the difference in the >> benchmarks compared to do it without this step ? >> > > Isn't it a MacOS issue only ?
No, this is relevant for all GNU C compilers! Without this step, which replaces the switch statement of the interpreter with a jump table, you get a *much* slower VM. I suggest to use the latest SVN source. Adrian _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
