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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:40:38PM +0200, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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> <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/0cb20dae370512c655eb665a7d5089db2819e862?hp=0a18a49b281a5a76e75de77e45ee27ad1b807bb2>
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> - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> commit 0cb20dae370512c655eb665a7d5089db2819e862
> Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
> Date: Tue Jun 15 21:26:14 2010 +0100
>
> In Perl_safesys{c,m,re}alloc(), defer dTHX for non-DEBUGING builds.
>
> Under ithreads, dTHX expands to pthread_getspecific() [or something similarly
> expensive], which the compiler can't optimise away. However, its return value
> isn't needed unless the allocation fails. So defer the call, hence avoiding
> it entirely on a successful allocation.
>
> DEBUGING builds require the value of dTHX for debugging purposes, so we can't
> postpone it for them. Unthreaded builds were never affected as they don't use
> thread local storage for the interpreter context.
This avoids a pthread_getspecific() on *every* malloc()/realloc()/calloc()
under (normal) ithreads, for the success path.
Not sure how much of a speedup that will give, but it has to be a step in the
right direction. (Not sure how to measure it, and wasn't actually proposing to
put huge effort into it).
Other than Mandriva, does every OS distribution ship a threaded perl?
Nicholas Clark