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

[Filip Pizlo]

Phil,

I think you need to do better than this.

-Filip


> On Mar 6, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Phil Bouchard <philippeb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/06/2016 10:17 PM, Filip Pizlo wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mar 6, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Phil Bouchard <philippeb8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> It is very subjective but if we know that:
> - WebKit's GC is 2x faster than the Mark & Sweep GC
> - block_ptr<> is 2x faster than the Mark & Sweep GC
> 
> Then that means WebKit's GC == block_ptr<>.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> -Phil
> 
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