March 27, 2010
5:13 p.m.
On Mar 27, 2010, at 17:16 , laurent laffont wrote:
I would love that the official Linux VM has:
- that thing about the gnufication I did that when compiling MacOS VM. Read this link (step 4 for example)
http://www.squeakvm.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/platforms/Mac%20OS/vm/Docu...
does it make sense also in Linux VM ? which are the difference in the benchmarks compared to do it without this step ?
Isn't it a MacOS issue only ?
No, this is relevant for all GNU C compilers! Without this step, which replaces the switch statement of the interpreter with a jump table, you get a *much* slower VM. I suggest to use the latest SVN source. Adrian