That did it! My traces are nice and small now. Thanks! Timothy On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall@gmail.com> wrote:

I would expect cif_description to need to be constant (in your example it's i126, which I don't know where it comes from, but it's definitely not a constant). Simple promote should do the trick?

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I'm trying to optimize the FFI functionality in Pixie, and I'm not sure how to proceed. From what I understand, the JIT generator is able to optimize away calls to jit_libffi and simply replace them with bare calls to the c functions. However, not matter how I hint or mark things as immutable, I seem to always have a call to "jit_ffi_call_int". What exactly triggers

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:22 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldridge@gmail.com> wrote: the

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JIT to remove that call?

The part of the trace involved in the jit call looks like this:

https://gist.github.com/halgari/31b188e8e4757ccb3218

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Timothy

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