More performance explorations

[John Rose]

On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:47 PM, John Rose wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Ola Bini wrote:
> 
>> Is there anything I can do to help out with finding this problem?
> 
> I can't reproduce the VM crash yet.  Like Christian, I got through problems 1 and 2, on bsd (both 32-bit and 64-bit).
> 
> Problem 3 generates huge output, so it's hard to see what's going on.  It is running on my machine but seems to take forever.  FWIW, it got through this line at least:
>  - (small numbers)                39.867609000
> 
> It would help to have a smaller test case, preferably one that doesn't generate any output before the crash.

This worked:  bin/seph bench/bench_arithmetic.sp > /tmp/seph-output 2>& 1

It finished in seconds.  (The problem with my first run was Emacs overhead; there were 100K lines, 5 Mb, of output.)

It ran successfully in 32 and 64-bit modes.

-- John