Re: [Vala] Vala vs Mono performance benchmark project

[pancake <pancake youterm com>]

I've opened a bug about this

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641828

On 02/01/11 00:31, pancake wrote:
> Wow! Thats good news! Will test it tomorrow :)
>
> Another optimization that can bring a 1% extra can be to define ref and unref in .h as static inline 
> functions. But thats something the compiler must optimize.
>
> On 31/01/2011, at 20:23, Aleksander Wabik<alex wabik gmail com>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > on signals i can say that vala uses to call signals by name. vala should generate g_signal_emit() instead of 
> > > g_signal_emit_by_name(). can you do a benchmark with this and tell us the performance boost?
> > I added new benchmark by manually hacking generated C code. The
> > performance gain is significant, about 18%.
> >
> > call_signal_typed:  10,473<----- this it in vala-generated signal
> > invoking benchmark
> >
> > call_signal_by_reference_typed:  8,544<---- this is in the hacked code
> >
> > I've committed the patch that should be applied to the generated C
> > code, and the instructions what to checkout, how to generate C code,
> > how to apply a patch, and how to build benchmark application from the
> > patched C code. The patch itself is very hackish, but does the job.
> >
> > The commit containing this patch was tagged with name:
> > 'check_g_signal_emit_vs_g_signal_emit_by_name_performance.patch'
> >
> > It can also be reviewed here:
> > http://gitorious.org/vala-object-benchmarks/vala-object-benchmarks/commit/e90927e4cb1d65ce692d295817d25cafc789c85f
> >
> > best regards,