[m-dev.] agc performance

[Fergus Henderson]

On 07-Jun-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> [...] with this change, the compiler now bootstraps
> and passes all of the tests in our test suite, using
> GRADE=hlc.agc, EXTRA_MCFLAGS=--no-reclaim-heap-on-failure,
> and MERCURY_OPTIONS=--heap-size 100000.
> 
> On the ICFP2000 test cases, it runs an average of about 17-20% slower
> than hlc.gc (the Boehm collector).

For the compiler itself, the result is worse: the slowdown is about 70%.

(The variance is quite high; it depends a lot on exactly which module you
compile, what options you compile it with, and what heap size you set.)

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