[Vm-dev] "The tragedy of PIC" summary

[Frank Shearar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching#Polymorphic_inline_caching

frank

On 2 July 2013 10:12, Tudor Girba <tudor at tudorgirba.com> wrote:
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> What is PIC? :)
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> Doru
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> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi eliot
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>> So I was reading the PhD of Holzle and I wanted to know
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>>         - I remember that at southampton (yes that far) you did a presentation on the tragedy of the PIC.
>>         And I would not find the slides (because there were none).
>>         What was the pitch? That megamorphic site are killing PIC?
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>>         - does VW use type feedback?
>>         if yes, what were the strategies to decide what and when to recompile.
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>>         - I was wondering how type feedback and PIC interact (I'm at chapter 5 of the PhD so may be this is explain in the self implementation part)
>>         the first case of the PIC could be based on type feedback?
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>> Stef
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