Re: [Pharo-users] A new idea for a project: WarpSpeed (a C inliner)

2016-02-28 Thread Thierry Goubier
Le 29/02/2016 00:32, Ben Coman a écrit : On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: So now that AsmJit is gone , I had a new idea for a project and I wanted your opinion on this if you think it will be useful for the community, I call it WarpSpeed. I was thinking it would still

Re: [Pharo-users] A new idea for a project: WarpSpeed (a C inliner)

2016-02-28 Thread kilon.alios
TinyC has not similar perfomance to gcc and clang, its actually slower as Stephan already mentioned. Thats the price one has to pay for the much smaller compiler, it loses a lot of optimisations. Clement from what you saying its clear my idea would not work at all, the advantage of tinyC is that

Re: [Pharo-users] A new idea for a project: WarpSpeed (a C inliner)

2016-02-28 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > So now that AsmJit is gone , I had a new idea for a project and I wanted > your opinion on this if you think it will be useful for the community, I > call it WarpSpeed. > > I was thinking it would still be cool to have some kind of librar

[Pharo-users] minimal image load config question

2016-02-28 Thread Robert Kuszinger
Hello! I'm trying to load my app (config) into the minimal image from the command line. pharo min.image config http://smalltalkhub.com/mc/RobertKuszinger/GcUploader/main ConfigurationOfGiscomKkt --install=stable --username= --password= After a few seconds of working it stops like this (longer ve

Re: [Pharo-users] Who is using Pharo Launcher and for what

2016-02-28 Thread Stephan Eggermont
On 20-02-16 11:49, Damien Cassou wrote: I don't need long paragraphs, just give me the keywords please. Today I triaged a bug in CodePanel by downloading image versions 50600 50590 50595 50597 and 50596 and installing NewUI from the catalog browser to find out that it was broken by a change i

Re: [Pharo-users] A new idea for a project: WarpSpeed (a C inliner)

2016-02-28 Thread Stephan Eggermont
On 28-02-16 10:17, Clément Bera wrote: assuming tinyC has performance similar to gcc or llvm, you may get faster, It does not. On the website they compare to -O1 speed and then are already twice as slow Stephan

[Pharo-users] Helpful info for Fuel data migration

2016-02-28 Thread Hilaire
Hello guys, It will be very helpful to migrate fuel data from one image to another to have written somewhere on the Fuel page[1], the Fuel number version shipped with each image release. Thanks Hilaire [1] http://rmod.inria.fr/web/software/Fuel -- Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu

Re: [Pharo-users] A new idea for a project: WarpSpeed (a C inliner)

2016-02-28 Thread Clément Bera
Hello, As Stephan Eggermont said, you need to make some measurements. There are a few big problems. In short, if the FFI call is going to do quite some computation (at least a few millisecond), assuming tinyC has performance similar to gcc or llvm, you may get faster, if the FFI call is going to

Re: [Pharo-users] A new idea for a project: WarpSpeed (a C inliner)

2016-02-28 Thread Esteban Lorenzano
> On 28 Feb 2016, at 02:04, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > > On 26/02/16 20:30, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: >> I was thinking it would still be cool to have some kind of library that >> will help us boost the speed of pharo . So I was thinking about a C >> inliner which is far easier than an Assembly i