Heh, I've a paypal account here, lets see make VM run 20% faster, must be worth some cash...

I'll suspect you didn't follow the steps to gunify the interp.c file. failure to do that results in something very slow, also the patch for including arrays in the structure , failure to do that also can result in interesting code in GCC 3.3, other versions produce different results of course. As you noticed failure to follow steps exactly result in poor performing VM, of course I'm always interested to hear about computer/code tweaks to make it faster.

Also ensure you did build with gcc 3.3, I didn't get messages about fPIC issues so I"m wondering if it's really building with GCC 4.0 (lying about it)

Oh and you build a Squeak VM Opt target with Deployment build configuration? A non-optimized debug VM is very slow.

On 17-Nov-05, at 9:46 AM, Josh Gargus wrote:

(moving this over to vm-dev from squeak-dev)

Aargh! But it still runs really slow!

For example, a typical vm built by you gives the following result: '102481985 bytecodes/sec; 4680713 sends/sec'

This is much faster than both a vm...

built by me last week, gcc 4.0 '85676037 bytecodes/sec; 3241530 sends/sec'

built by me a few minutes ago, gcc 3.3 '56338028 bytecodes/sec; 1730422 sends/sec'

In fact, the one I built with gcc-3.3 is far worse than the gcc-4.0 one!

Any ideas? I'll continue to play around with it.

Thanks, Josh

On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Josh Gargus wrote:

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Thanks for the updates you checked in.

I still had to add -fPIC to the cflags in order for it to build, though.

Josh

On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:13 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

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I'll note building with gcc 4.0 is a bad idea because the VM performance degrades... I'll post a XCode 2.1 aware project for the 38vmmaker tree and the main trunk once I get everything to compile.

On 10-Nov-05, at 9:43 AM, Josh Gargus wrote:

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Huzzah for perseverence!

The auto-updated XCode project wasn't quite right; I had to make the following tweaks:

• switch to use gcc-4.0

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