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

[Tudor Girba]

Ahh :)

Thanks,
Doru


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> > frank
> >
> > On 2 July 2013 10:12, Tudor Girba <tudor at tudorgirba.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What is PIC? :)
> >>
> >> Doru
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, stephane ducasse <
> stephane.ducasse at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> www.tudorgirba.com
> >>
> >> "Every thing has its own flow"
> >>
>



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