[Vm-dev] Slang inliner effectiveness

[Stefan Marr]

On 31/07/11 17:25, David T. Lewis wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:38:39PM +0200, Stefan Marr wrote:
> Any guess what the reason could be why the C compiler fails to do proper
> inlineing?
> I cannot really say, and I am not much of an expert of C compilers.
> For the most part I was just concerned with the slang inliner itself
> when I was doing this (it needed some tweaks and fixes before I could
> get MemoryAccess to work properly). I was very impressed with how well
> the slang inliner actually worked in practice, though I cannot say too
> much about what it might take to get a C compiler to achieve similar
> results. To be honest I would not much care about it, given how well
> the slang inlining already works, and given that it is generating C
> code that will work well on most any compiler. I also like the fact
> that it is 100% Smalltalk, and does not rely on any hidden magic in
> the external compiler.
Well, the interesting question for me is, does it pay of in terms of 
some percent speedup if I walk over the RoarVM codebase and add some 
more inline/force_inline hints here and there.

Perhaps I should just try it, the only question then is, where to start, 
and where to stop ;)

Thanks
Stefan


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> Dave
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