Yes, that's Turbofan; and yes, it's enabled by default. On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:27 PM 李弘毅 <lihongy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I have another little question: when running the latest v8, is that > "new optimizing compiler" (I guess that is Turbofan, right?) enabled by > default? > > 2018-03-24 9:31 GMT+08:00 Jakob Kummerow <jkumme...@chromium.org>: > >> You cannot turn off the interpreter, nor build V8 without it. Without the >> interpreter, V8 would be unable to execute any JavaScript. >> >> V8 used to have a non-optimizing compiler and an optimizing compiler. Now >> it has an interpreter and a new optimizing compiler, replacing the former >> two. What hasn't changed is that all executed code still goes through the >> first stage of the pipeline first, and then is eventually optimized if it >> runs hot enough. >> >> So I think for your purposes, the fact that the non-optimizing compiler >> was replaced with an interpreter is an internal implementation detail that >> you don't need to care about. Just go ahead and run your benchmarks :-) >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 5:54 PM Howie Lee <lihongy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, everyone! >>> >>> I need to run some benchmarks on the v8 to test the performance of a DBT >>> (a dynamic binary translator). I am wondering how to turn off the >>> interpreter in the v8, or is it possible to build v8 without the >>> interpreter? Though I know that I can build the v8 5.5.x which does not >>> have the interpreter, yet my professor prefer to use the latest v8 by >>> turning off the interpreter. The very reason is that our dbt is written >>> when v8 doesn't have an interpreter and my professor would like to restore >>> the same environment to run benchmarks on our dbt again without degrading >>> the version of v8. Since we'd like to use our old dbt in another pro, we >>> are afraid the version of v8 will be a drawback to publishing a paper. >>> >>> Thanks a lot! >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> v8-users mailing list >>> v8-users@googlegroups.com >>> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "v8-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> -- >> v8-users mailing list >> v8-users@googlegroups.com >> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "v8-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/v8-users/Gv6yrGkkLpA/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > v8-users mailing list > v8-users@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to v8-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
