Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-14 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Jul 14, 2012 12:35 AM, "John Rose" wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >> I have run into my first obvious behavioral difference between the new >> and old code: the "name" argument (2nd arg) to bootstrap methods was >> interned under the old backend, but is not

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-13 Thread John Rose
On Jul 13, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Still looking good on general stability. Perf is a mixed bag but still > usually faster than non-indy. Well, that's better than slower. We are going to shake out lots of perf. problems after we get this next push done. > I have run in

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Ok, updates. Still looking good on general stability. Perf is a mixed bag but still usually faster than non-indy. I have run into my first obvious behavioral difference between the new and old code: the "name" argument (2nd arg) to bootstrap methods was interned under the old backend, but is not

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-12 Thread Stephen Bannasch
At 1:32 PM -0700 7/11/12, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >Ok, gents, Christian told me now might be a good time to start poking >at the new indy backend with JRuby, so I got a build together and have >been playing with it a bit. > >First off, getting it to build... > >Stephen B's gist still works fin

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Haupt
Charles, Am 12.07.2012 um 08:44 schrieb Charles Oliver Nutter: > It ranges...fib is around 80% slower. Richards is like 150% slower. > red_black is a bit slower than that. We're not talking orders of > magnitude, but they're kinda where we were this time last year before > we really go to tuning.

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Michael Haupt wrote: > Can you say some more about the performance? How much slower is it? It ranges...fib is around 80% slower. Richards is like 150% slower. red_black is a bit slower than that. We're not talking orders of magnitude, but they're kinda where we w

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread John Rose
On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > I pulled down all updates from today, did a fresh build, and things > appear to be working properly. Hooray! Hooray indeed! Now we are on the right track. Thanks (again) for joining us on the bleeding edge. — John___

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Haupt
Charles, Am 12.07.2012 um 07:47 schrieb Charles Oliver Nutter: > I pulled down all updates from today, did a fresh build, and things > appear to be working properly. Hooray! :-) > Perf isn't at u4 levels, but it isn't awful and stability seems pretty > good...even including a few command lines t

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Updates! On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Still waiting on Christian's additional patch, but removing xbmh did > not appear to help anything. Rebuilt, ran fib, and... I pulled down all updates from today, did a fresh build, and things appear to be working properly.

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote: > I just fixed a problem that explains a lot of these intermittent failures > (which I'm about to push after some sanity testing). And Charlie applied > the xbmh patch which might explain some of the performance problems (just a > wild g

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:17 PM, John Rose wrote: > On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > >> OS X Lion, newish MBP, 4-core, 16GB memory. > > I have a 2009 MBP with 2 cores. We have a creeping suspicion that the > crashing is more common on the 4-core machines. I just fixed

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread John Rose
On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > OS X Lion, newish MBP, 4-core, 16GB memory. I have a 2009 MBP with 2 cores. We have a creeping suspicion that the crashing is more common on the 4-core machines. — John___ mlvm-dev mailing l

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:46 PM, John Rose wrote: > Thanks for testing. Sorry it didn't get so far! I think we have a depot > bug and/or race condition. It may be that more cores make the bug happen > more. Oh yes, I should explain the system I'm on, in case it's relevant... OS X Lion, newish

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread John Rose
On Jul 11, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > So there it is for the moment :) Thoughts? Thanks for testing. Sorry it didn't get so far! I think we have a depot bug and/or race condition. It may be that more cores make the bug happen more. I am able to grind through things like

Re: Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
FYI, this is a build from roughly 8AM CDT today. I don't think any patches have landed post-build. - Charlie On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Ok, gents, Christian told me now might be a good time to start poking > at the new indy backend with JRuby, so I got a buil

Testing out latest work

2012-07-11 Thread Charles Oliver Nutter
Ok, gents, Christian told me now might be a good time to start poking at the new indy backend with JRuby, so I got a build together and have been playing with it a bit. First off, getting it to build... Stephen B's gist still works fine: https://gist.github.com/243072 But I had to issue one addi