[erlang-questions] Strange optimization result

[Steve Vinoski]

On 21 Oct 2007 11:41:12 +0200, Bjorn Gustavsson <bjorn@REDACTED>
wrote:
>
> "Anders Nygren" <anders.nygren@REDACTED> writes:
> >
> > My only idea is that this is caused by some pathological CPU cache
> > behaviour. Does anyone have a better explanation?
>
> Could be. I have another GUESS: using a tuple instead of dict will
> result in a smaller heap size for the spawned process, which will lead
> to more frequent garbage collections. You could use the spawn_opt()
> BIF with the min_heap_size option.
>
> To get a similar heap size as when using a dict, use
>
>         erts_debug:size(wfbm3:init()).
>
> which is 1120.
>

I didn't try this or Bob's suggestion of simulating a tuple, but I did
eliminate a dict lookup in the code that finds shift values, and also
changed the macros to use hard-coded string lengths (since the strings are
fixed) rather than recalculating them with length/1, and got another 25%
speedup:

<http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2007/10/21/faster-wf-still/>


--steve
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