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

[Frank Shearar]

I should add, this is Urs Holzle's thesis:
http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/urs-thesis.html,
"Adaptive Optimization for Self: reconciling high performance with
exploratory programming"

frank

On 2 July 2013 10:18, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching#Polymorphic_inline_caching
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> frank
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> 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
>>>
>>> So I was reading the PhD of Holzle and I wanted to know
>>>
>>>         - 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?
>>>
>>>         - does VW use type feedback?
>>>         if yes, what were the strategies to decide what and when to recompile.
>>>
>>>         - 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Stef
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>> --
>> www.tudorgirba.com
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>> "Every thing has its own flow"
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