Oprofile, swap

[Eduardo Silva]

I've been doing some Psyco test. I'll post a new blog entry about it
and send the information to the ml.

thanks

Eduardo
http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl

On Dec 18, 2007 6:04 PM, John Richard Moser <nigelenki at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote:
> >
> >
> >     I suggest taking a look at PyPy for Python, which will dynamic
> >     recompile
> >     Python to native code and likely give some good performance benefits.  I
> >     really can't stand JIT compilation and would prefer something that takes
> >     advantage of Mono's own facilities, to centralize the effort in the JIT
> >     at least (Mono has nice stuff), but IronPython is Microsoft Permissive
> >     License which is not OSI approved.
> >
> >
> > Has anyone looked at Psyco on the XO? The point is, no generic mono JIT
> > is going to be as smart about guessing the 95% case for Python, as
> > something written specifically for Python.
> >
>
> The CIL dynamic re-compiler has a well-developed optimizer and a bunch
> of other stuff, including an awesome garbage collector.  The newer
> version use a compacting garbage collector IIRC; though Python might use
> reference counting internally (it might be better that way, but consider
> the interpreter itself would be in CIL and use reflection ...).
>
> It's basically Python -> CIL -> CIL optimizer, not Python -> CIL -> C#
> optimizer.  Granted, yes, an optimizer aware of specific language ABI
> specifics (like classes for C++, functions and structures for C, ect)
> can pre-optimize and then let the lower level optimizer re-optimize the
> code better (I think that's how GCC does it, optimizes a Gimple tree
> based on language and then does a general optimization based on
> hardware); but a CIL reflection compiler could compile Python into an
> internal tree, optimize it, emit optimized CIL, and let Mono generate
> optimized x86 code (as in, optimize the generated x86 code).
>
> > Disclaimer: I have no experience to back this up.
>
> I have fuzzy understanding of compiler internals, nothing formal and
> nothing really great.  Ask a gcc guy and a Mono guy.
> >
> > Jameson
>
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