Re: [Chicken-users] Nursery sizing considered stupid

[felix winkelmann]

On 7/21/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Since I believe that the whole idea of figuring out the correct nursery
> size by measuring raw code speed is fundamentally flawed, it follows that
> I don't believe that tweaking the use of nsample will help, *and* I don't
> believe that changing nsample to do something different will help either.
>
> My proposal is the same as it was in my original message, and is simple.
> Forget the variable-size nursery altogether and go with 128K, period.
> Make this tweakable in the configuration file, and for anything else,
> people can use -:s.  You're already halfway there.

John:

cd to benchmarks, compile one (say "csc -Ob dynamic"), run it with
nursery settings -:s32k, -:s300k and the default, multiple times.
Then tell me the nursery size doesn't make a difference. It does, at least
on Linux machines.


cheers,
felix

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