Re: The Mauve unicode testcase and VM performance

[Stuart Ballard]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> and overhead. Hope I have time next week to update it with at least rvm
> development results and maybe IKVM ahead of time results (Jeroen, any
> hints on how to do that in this case?)

I don't know whether you have a zip/jar or individual classfiles but 
assuming it's a single jar file, presumably it would be (commands 
separated by blank lines - ignore any mailer-induced wordwrapping):

mono ikvmc.exe -target:exe -out:mauve.exe -reference:classpath.dll 
-main:gnu.testlet.SimpleTestHarness mauve.jar

time echo gnu.testlet.java.lang.Character.unicode | mono mauve.exe -debug

You may need to arrange for all IKVM's DLLs to be in the same directory 
as mauve.exe. The other thing to try would be using Mono's --aot option 
to pre-JIT (as it were) the generated exe and dlls. I've never tried 
this but in theory it appears that you should be able to do:

mono --aot mauve.exe
(and possibly also:
mono --aot classpath.dll
mono --aot IK.VM.NET.dll
etc...)

prior to running mauve.exe itself.

Of course, I'm not Jeroen and I could be missing something significant...

Stuart.

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