JIT not tracing through Timsort and not virtualizing through ordereddict

[timfel]

This is the reason we are so slow on the "Acid" benchmark presented here: http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/pushing-pixels/

[alex]

Where would you expect it to trace in Timsort? Is the problem that the comparator isn't inlined?

Can you show a small trace with an example of the orderreddict?

[alex]

Can you let me know if #834 helped?

Is:

module Foo
  extend self

  def foo(a, b, c)
    hash = {a: a, b: b, c: c}
    array = hash.map { |k, v| v }
    x = array[0]
    y = [a, b, c].sort[1]
    x + y
  end

end

class Bar

  def method_missing(method, *args)
    if Foo.respond_to?(method)
      Foo.send(method, *args)
    else
      0
    end
  end

end

bar = Bar.new

loop do
  start = Time.now

  1_000_000.times do
    # This block should be compiled to the constant Fixnum value 22
    bar.foo(14, 8, 6)
  end

  puts Time.now - start
end

the snippet to benchmark? If yes, I can probably run it myself.

[alex]

It looks like the next issue is the Hash#map, we need to unroll stuff in Ruby, and I'm not sure how that would look.

[alex]

I guess, Interpreter.jump should just not call can_enter_jit... if something.

[timfel]

I'm guessing one thing that would help on this benchmark are storage strategies. A student at HPI has been extracting the commonolaties into an rlib library that he demonstrated to work in lang-smalltalk, pycket, and topaz. I've asked him to coordinate with cfbolz to get the library into shape and I'll get him to run this with strategies.

[alex]

Oooh, that's awesome.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Tim Felgentreff notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm guessing one thing that would help on this benchmark are storage strategies. A student at HPI has been extracting the commonolaties into an rlib library that he demonstrated to work in lang-smalltalk, pycket, and topaz. I've asked him to coordinate with cfbolz to get the library into shape and I'll get him to run this with strategies.

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