Re: [Help-smalltalk] Multiple Worlds in GNU Smalltalk

[Gwenael Casaccio]

and _gst_ip
PREFETCH (120 000 000 calls of __tls_get_addr)

On 06/15/2011 06:44 PM, Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've made test with example/Bench.st. Instead of printing the result
> (slower) I want to give you the number of times __tls_get_addr is called:
>
> 293 987 770 (in _gst_interpret)
> 53% of time of execution is spent in __tls_get_addr
>
> It's time to optimize it a bit no ?
>
> I was thinking of putting in _gst_interpret some variables at least
> _gst_mem
>
> Gwen
>
> On 06/14/2011 01:57 AM, Gwenaël Casaccio wrote:
> > More seriously I've clean up the code and use thread local storage
> > instead a big struct.
> > The multiple image support is working and bootstraping too ;-)
> >
> > Gwen
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Gwenael Casaccio<address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > On 06/09/2011 11:22 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > > > On 06/09/2011 11:05 AM, Gwenael Casaccio wrote:
> > > > > I think that's the right way but I want your opinion on the changes.
> > > > > I plan to fix the multiple worlds support by :
> > > > > - fix the world swapping crash :)
> > > > > - see the impact on the vm (semaphore/events/...)
> > > > > - introducing a model for the worlds
> > > > > - the scheduling could be time shared for the worlds (Paolo what do
> > > > > you think)?
> > > >
> > > > Why not parallel? M worlds == M threads, with inter-world
> > > > synchronization primitives. Windows events look like a feasible
> > > > model to
> > > > use for synchronization primitives where you can wait for either any or
> > > > all of N events to become signaled. Or Erlang-like channels too.
> > > >
> > > > How do you plan to move objects across worlds?
> > > >
> > > > Paolo
> > >
> > > *** BREAKING NEWS multi core image is working BREAKING NEWS ***
> > >
> > > Gwen