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> Hi Bert:
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> On 04 Nov 2010, at 20:20, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>>> So RoarVM is about 4 times slower in sends, even more so for bytecodes. It needs 8 cores to be faster the regular interpreter on a single core. To the good news is that it can beat the old interpreter :)  But why is it so much slower than the normal interpreter?
>>> Well, one the one hand, we don't use stuff like the GCC label-as-value extension to have threaded-interpretation, which should help quite a bit.
>>> Then, the current implementation based on pthreads is quite a bit slower then our version which uses plain Unix processes.
>>> The GC is really not state of the art.
>>> And all that adds up rather quickly I suppose...
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>> Hmm, that doesn't sound like it should make it 4x slower ...
> Do you know some numbers for the switch/case-based vs. the threaded version on the standard VM?
> How much do you typically gain by it?