Hotspot loves PHP.reboot

[Rémi Forax]

On 09/07/2011 01:22 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>
>> On 09/07/2011 09:08 AM, John Rose wrote:
>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:00 AM, Per Bothner wrote:
>>>
>>>> I assume this is one reason why Kawa's IntNum is (mostly) faster than
>>>> BigInteger.
>>>
>>> Yes, that's probably true.
>>>
>>> Here's a dirty secret:  As you can see from the OpenJDK sources, 
>>> BigDecimal, but not BigInteger, has this optimization (see private 
>>> field BigDecimal.intCompact).  Why BigDecimal but not BigInteger? 
>>>  Because specjbb2000 uses BigDecimal.
>>>
>>> (OTOH, an imperfect metric like specjbb2000 is far better than no 
>>> metric at all, for driving competition.)
>>
>> This remember me that we don't have any benchmarks using dynamic 
>> languages
>> which is, as you explain, not good on the long term.
>>
>> What about having 10 to 12 benchs, one by language, provided by each 
>> language runtime developer
>> as a good bench for their runtime ?
>
> That is a VERY good idea!  How about if PHP.reboot contributes the 
> first one? ;-)

I've to think a bit about what is the best program for a bench of 
PHP.reboot.
I also think that we should provide only one jar with a special entrypoint.

What is the best location for that benchmark ?

>
> -- Christian

Rémi

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