Re: [pypy-dev] towards more parallelization in the tracer/optimizer

2012-03-23 Thread Armin Rigo
Hi Timo, On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 22:35, Timo Paulssen wrote: > If the raw trace - or a minimally optimized version of it - can be run > directly, why not run it once or thrice while waiting for the optimizer to > finish optimizing the trace fully? Yes, it's something we already thought of, but t

[pypy-dev] towards more parallelization in the tracer/optimizer

2012-03-15 Thread Timo Paulssen
Hello, I just watched Benjamin Petersons talk on the JIT and one comment that seemed like just a sidethought caught my attention: "we are limited by speed. we don't want to spend three seconds optimizing it as fast as gcc possibly could, because noone wants the program to stop for three seco