[gambit-list] parallel GC

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Fri Oct 28 18:35:29 EDT 2016


I forgot to say that this is on a machine where nproc returns 8, but 
there's really only 4 cores and it's hyperthreaded:

model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1271 v3 @ 3.60GHz

Brad


On 10/28/2016 05:54 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 02:41 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
>> Gambit has reached a milestone today with the implementation of the
>> parallel garbage collector.  This is an important step towards truly
>> concurrent Gambit threads.
>>
>> When Gambit is configured with --enable-multiple-threaded-vms the
>> available processors will cooperate to do the garbage collection in
>> parallel.
>
> When I configure with
>
> ./configure 'CC=gcc -march=native' '--enable-single-host'
> '--enable-multiple-versions' '--enable-shared'
> --enable-multiple-threaded-vms
>
> It takes this long to run the unit tests:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib:../gsi:../gsc:/usr/local/libimobiledevice/lib:/usr/local/Gambit/current/lib:/usr/local/netpbm10/lib:
> ../gsi/gsi -:tl,~~bin=../bin,~~lib=../lib,~~include=../include -f
> ./run-unit-tests.scm
> [ 122|   0|   0] 100% ##########################################   3.7s
> PASSED ALL 122 UNIT TESTS
>
> When I configure with
>
> heine:~/programs/gambit/gambit> ./configure 'CC=gcc -march=native'
> '--enable-single-host' '--enable-multiple-versions' '--enable-shared'
>
> the unit tests run in this time:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib:../gsi:../gsc:/usr/local/libimobiledevice/lib:/usr/local/Gambit/current/lib:/usr/local/netpbm10/lib:
> ../gsi/gsi -:tl,~~bin=../bin,~~lib=../lib,~~include=../include -f
> ./run-unit-tests.scm
> [ 122|   0|   0] 100% ##########################################   1.6s
> PASSED ALL 122 UNIT TESTS
>
> That's a big difference.  This is on Ubuntu 16.10 with the built-in gcc
> 6.2.0.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Brard




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