On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 September 2009 15:38:06 Philippe Wang wrote:
>> Very few programs that are not written with multicore in mind would
>> not be penalized.
>> I mean our GC is much much dumber than INRIA OCaml's one.
>> Our goal was to show it was possible to have good performance with
>> multicores for OCaml.
>> Maybe someday we'll find some time to optimize the GC, but it's likely
>> not very soon.
>
> Just to quantify this with a data point: the fastest (serial) version of my
> ray tracer benchmark is 10x slower with the new GC. However, this is
> anomalous with respect to complexity and the relative performance is much
> better for simpler renderings. For example, the new GC is only 1.7x slower
> with n=6 instead of n=9.

I just put a version with a bug fix on some structures allocation (20090925).
I hope it removes this anomaly.

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Philippe Wang
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