[Mono-devel-list] Performance w/ boxing

[Paolo Molaro]

On 02/19/04 Ben Maurer wrote:
> Today I posted a blog entry about the performance of boxing. Someone
> posted that MS was a few times faster on the test. My first reaction was
> that this was a GC problem, however given the nature of the test case,
> the generational GC does not give MS much of an advantage. I am not

You obviously have no idea of how a generational GC works.

> I would be interested if any of the runtime guys have any ideas about
> how to speed this up. The code is below:

Of course we have ideas, we actually think about the cause of performance
issues.
Do you want a 50+% speedup over the current time? Use a generational GC.
A 10% speedup? Make stack unwinding work across the managed->unmanaged
boundary with any compiler.
Another 5-10% speedup? Get the jit to produce better code (especially
better register allocation).

lupus

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