[erlang-questions] Strange optimization result

[Thomas Lindgren]

--- Caoyuan <dcaoyuan@REDACTED> wrote:

> It seems GC is also a key for performance now :-)
> per my tbray4.erl
> code, which uses plain Dict
> 
> After I added [{min_heap_size, 3000}] to spawn_opt,
> the elapsed time
> dropped from 7.7 sec to 5.7s immediately.
> 
> The code is at:
>
http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/learning_coding_parallelization_was_tim

That's a 35% speedup just from sizing the heap right.
So it seems the internal VM heuristics for this could
be tuned or improved.

Best,
Thomas


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