[DGD] Current Status of VM efforts

[Carter Cheng]

Appreciate the help Shentino.

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Carter Cheng <cartercheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Shentino thanks. Since you are around I do have a followup question
>> for you (since you have been stress testing the dgd server). I have
>> been thinking of compiling a version of this server with profiling on.
>> Is there some methodology you have for assessing the performance?
>> Dworkin do you have any idea here?
>
>
> My guess is that you'd definitely want to pay attention to i_interpret
> and/or i_call
>
> JIT can only help with bypassing interpretation of machine code, and you
> still have invariant overhead elsewhere (processing callouts, handling
> network I/O, swapping, etc) that JIT won't influence.
>
> To be quite frank, as far as my tests go, mostly I've been pushing the
> envelope so hard that I wind up exposing bugs long before I get around to
> performance evaluations.  Most of my attempts to optimize dgd and/or a
> mudlib running on it wind up turning into segfaults...and then into patches
> from dworkin.
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