It also seems that about L3//4 is a pretty good number on both his machine and mine. Not optimal in the single core case but works well as load increases. Of course, single or four core machines could be wildly different.
On Thursday, March 17, 2011, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Chris Mulligan > <chris.mulli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just installed PyPy on my Macbook Pro per Bob Ippolito's instructions. Very >> easy! > > Thanks for the feedback. The results make it clear that we should > somehow tune the number according to the load of the machine -- > picking up the right number for the load can easily make a 20% speed > difference (at least on Mac OS X, but I strongly suspect the same is > true on other platforms). > > Ideally, it should dynamically adapt its nursery size in order to > minimize the cache misses. If anyone has a suggestion on how to > implement that, preferably in a non-OS-specific way (e.g. by reading > some x86 CPU counters), I'd welcome it :-) > > > A bientôt, > > Armin. > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev@codespeak.net > http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev > _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
