Hi Tim:

> On 11 Jun 2016, at 07:39, Tim Felgentreff <timfelgentreff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> About also running TruffleSOM, while it might be interesting for some benchmarks, I am really interested in testing VMs that run the full image (including heartbeat, event sensor) while running those benchmarks.

The JVM generates safe points, yield points, and all the things that are necessary for Java semantics… (i.e., all the equivalents for heartbeat/event sensor overhead).
Also, such minor details don’t account for more than a few percent overhead on average.

No excuses :-P

Best regards
Stefan


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Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
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