The HLVM project is a high-level VM optimized for scientific computing:
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/hlvm/
I implemented the first-working version of a garbage collector capable of
collecting from threads that run in parallel in November. Initial performance
was awful due to the overhead of accessing thread-local data via POSIX
pthreads. I just completed optimizing HLVM so thread-local data are now
passed everywhere as an auxiliary argument to every HLVM function. This has
dramatically improved performance and single-threaded code now runs within
25% of the performance of the serial collector.
However, one test fails with a segfault when JIT compiled with TCO enabled and
I don't know why.
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Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
