method dictionary lookups and walking up the inheritance tree
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Tue May 16 19:31:58 UTC 2006
On 16-May-06, at 12:05 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> I'll note the cache is very efficient, someone a few years back
> attempted to make some changes and make the cache much much bigger
> In testing on various platforms we could not show any improvement
> in the standard benchmarks to justify the additional memory
> requirements.
I think it was worse - on several machines of plausible spec it
actually got slower.
VisualWorks (and probably other VMs at a guess) got some serious
benefits out of polymorphic inline caches. I rather doubt inline
caching is going to work in an interpreter but there might be some
advantage in making the current global cache polymorphic. It could be
a decent experiment to try out as a class exercise for example, since
even if it turns out not to be beneficial it would be instructive and
require all the usual investigative, analytical and explicative
skills. I'd even volunteer to help with reviewing and grading,
subject to time constraints.
tim
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