Re: indirect threading for bytecode interpreter

[joakim]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I've profiled (using oprofile) Emacs running this a few times;
>>> typical results show mark_object at 10-12% of runtime.  It is
>>> probably pretty easy to reproduce this with a variety of elisp
>>> programs.
>>
>> So no matter how hard we try, we won't gain more than about 10%
>> speed-up trying to optimize the GC.  Doesn't sound like a great
>> motivator.
>
> The 10% occur in bursts of unresponsiveness.  If such a burst is halved
> in size, the total runtime improvement will not be impressive, but the
> responsiveness gets quite better.

Unresponsiveness is the main cause of intestinal agony, so seems quite
worthwile to me.

-- 
Joakim Verona