[pypy-dev] 1.6 status report

[David Naylor]

On Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:45:16 Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hum... It seems it's the end of my FreeBSD buildslave. :( I don't know
> > when it time the memory requirement jumped to over 4GB (Armin told me it
> > was now around 4.5GB for 64bits).
> 
> Actually I found out that with proper settings I can run a 64-bit
> "translate.py -Ojit" in 3.0GB.  I didn't measure the impact on time
> --- I expect it to take "a bit longer" to run, but of course much less
> than if it's swapping.  Maybe we need to tweak a bit our default
> parameters...
> 
> PYPY_GC_MAX_DELTA=200MB pypy --jit loop_longevity=300 ./translate.py -Ojit

FYI, the above options increases the build time by ~30% (on my system at-
least).  
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