[webkit-dev] [Block Pointer] Deterministic Region Based Memory Manager

Filip Pizlo fpizlo at apple.com
Sun Mar 6 19:17:44 PST 2016


> On Mar 6, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Phil Bouchard <philippeb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/06/2016 12:59 AM, Phil Bouchard wrote:
>> 
>> Anyway I am not sure if I can create a patch within a short period of
>> time but if I happen to have an interesting Javascript benchmark then I
>> will repost it to this mailing list.
> 
> Hmmm... I just want to say there are embeddable JS engines out there:
> http://duktape.org/
> 
> That should speed up my benchmarking process.

It will also make your benchmarking process inconclusive for the purpose of evaluating a memory manager’s performance relative to our garbage collector.  To put it another way, I don’t care if your memory manager is faster than someone else’s garbage collector.

-Filip



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