[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: some comments from me

cfbolz noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Mon Aug 6 10:58:06 CEST 2012


Author: Carl Friedrich Bolz <cfbolz at gmx.de>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r4427:edac61054797
Date: 2012-08-06 09:49 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/edac61054797/

Log:	some comments from me

diff --git a/talk/dls2012/paper.tex b/talk/dls2012/paper.tex
--- a/talk/dls2012/paper.tex
+++ b/talk/dls2012/paper.tex
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@
 Don't break code listings across pages, as at the start of section 3.  It makes
 them very hard to follow.
 }
+\cfbolz{let's do that only at the very end, just before submitting}
 
 To motivate the approach we propose here, let's look at a trivial (unrealistic)
 trace which corresponds to an infinite loop:
@@ -842,6 +843,9 @@
 first column, still has memory access, boxing, and type checks, which the paper
 then claims can be removed.  There's enough space to show this.
 }
+\cfbolz{
+we have space now, can someone add the final optimized version of the loop?
+}
 
 \section{Benchmarks}
 
@@ -858,11 +862,17 @@
 reproduce and build on your results.  I believe this should be the minimum
 standard for publishing measurements such as these.
 }
+\cfbolz{
+let's link to the bitbucket source code view. how about we move the benchmarks
+to the dls directory as well? or their own repository, we've been using them as
+demos
+}
 
 \revc{
 I would have liked to have benchmark results for some larger applications.
 When is this optimization effective on a large scale, if ever?
 }
+\cfbolz{I don't actually know. Does anybody?}
 
 \revd{
 It isn't clear from the paper, but a reader might conclude that the bulk of the
@@ -1031,6 +1041,8 @@
 quote that Mike is doing the same thing.  It might be worth including LuaJIT in
 the benchmarks, and/or examining the actual implementation of LuaJIT.
 }
+\cfbolz{maybe we can look in the new LuaJIT wiki.
+how annoying would it be to rerun the benchmarks, if I can find somebody to write them?}
 
 Mike Pall, the author of LuaJIT\footnote{\texttt{http://luajit.org/}} seems to
 have developed the described technique independently. There are no papers about


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