[CakeML-dev] Let's remove max_app

[Yong Kiam]

I can get you a before/after test on master and clos_stub on one of the
benchmarks compiled in the logic.

(will take awhile though)

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Scott Owens <S.A.Owens at kent.ac.uk> wrote:

> I should clarify that this is on the clos_stub branch, which I haven’t
> merged back to master.
>
> Scott
>
> > On 2017/03/07, at 15:00, Scott Owens <S.A.Owens at kent.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I’ve just finished the first improvement on reducing the number of
> stubs. I’d like to see where we are before trying to get further
> improvements. Can you re-try this, or even better, tell me what you were
> doing to get these numbers. Can we get anything meaningful without running
> the bootstrap (and the attendant 2 day wait)?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >> On 2017/03/05, at 08:21, Magnus Myreen <magnus.myreen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We should get rid of max_app. Reasons:
> >>
> >> 2. The current compilation strategy produces too much stub code in
> >>   clos_to_bvl.  If we really must have max_app (I argue below that
> >>   we don't), then it should be something like 10 or 15. With the
> >>   current compilation strategy, the binary produced for max_app=9 is
> >>   176 kb larger than the binary for max_app=3. I wanted to try
> >>   compiling with max_app=10, but that was taking more than 5
> >>   minutes. Compiling with max_app=3 takes 7 seconds for me. I
> >>   believe the slow down in compilation speed with differing max_app
> >>   values is caused by the rapid increase in code size (number of
> >>   stubs in clos_to_bvl) as max_app gets larger. My measurements
> >>   are below while compiling factorial (and the basis library):
> >>
> >>     max_app=1:  10.810s  (* very little room for opts in basis *)
> >>     max_app=2:  8.724s
> >>     max_app=3:  7.872s  (* allows optimisations in basis code *)
> >>     max_app=4:  8.935s
> >>     max_app=5:  11.608s
> >>     max_app=6:  21.771s
> >>     max_app=7:  42.932s
> >>     max_app=8:  1m24.872s
> >>     max_app=9:  3m9.745s
> >
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