Animorphic ST (Strongtalk) released!
Stephen Pair
spair at advantive.com
Fri Jul 19 13:53:32 UTC 2002
David Griswold wrote:
> If you have to recompile all the perf. critical code
> everytime the system starts up, all this might mean very slow
> startup, and noticeable pauses for compilations thereafter.
> But one way to get around all of this might be to keep the
> compiled code in ObjectMemory and save it with the image, in
> which case you could start the system in an already optimized
> state (complicates image portability, but worth it). In this
> case, people would generally want to do 'training' runs of
> their code to get them mostly optimized, and then save the
> image. Compilation then becomes a fairly rare thing after
> training is done.
Would it also be possible to simply tell the system to compile
everything? Thus, eliminating the need to do 'training' runs and
achieve maximum performance?
- Stephen
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