• osa <osa aso.osa> Sep 29 2010
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Sep 29 2010
• "Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> Sep 29 2010

osa <osa aso.osa> writes:

I started using std.concurrency in some projects and overall it feels 
like a solid (albeit minimalistic) design. However, current 
implementation has some issues. For example, I've noticed that using 
prioritySend slows everything considerably. Here is a simple benchmark 
to demonstrate the problem:
---------
import std.concurrency;
import std.date;
import std.stdio;

struct Message {}

void main() {
     enum TIME_LIMIT = 5 * ticksPerSecond;
     auto started = getUTCtime();
     d_time running = 0;
     long iterations = 0;

     while( running < TIME_LIMIT ) {
         version( priority ) {
             prioritySend( thisTid, Message() );
         }
         else {
             send( thisTid, Message() );
         }
         receive( (Message){} );
         if( ++iterations % 100 == 0 ) {
             running = getUTCtime() - started;
         }
     }

     auto seconds = cast(double)running / ticksPerSecond;
     writeln( "Benchmark: ", iterations, " iterations in ", seconds, " 
seconds (", iterations / seconds, "/second)" );
}
---------

Using dmd v2.049 on linux, this produces:
	Benchmark: 4469600 iterations in 5 seconds (893920/second)

But when compiled with -version=priority, result is quite different:
	Benchmark: 3700 iterations in 5.177 seconds (714.7/second)

This is about 1250 times slower than using send! Is there any reason for 
such penalty for using prioritySend?

Note that benchmark code is single-threaded. Initial version was using 
two threads (with similar discrepancy between send and prioritySend) but 
when I've tried to run it after compiling with -profile, it did not 
work. I assume that profiling is not supported for multi-threaded 
programs yet? So I profiled single-threaded benchmark and it seems that 
the main offender is PriorityMessageException constructor:
   Num          Tree        Func        Per
   Calls        Time        Time        Call

    1700   777986427   777986427      457639     class 
std.concurrency.PriorityMessageException!(struct 
concur1.Message).PriorityMessageException 
std.concurrency.PriorityMessageException!(struct 
concur1.Message).PriorityMessageException.__ctor(struct concur1.Message)

P.S. demangle program example at 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_demangle.html is broken -- 
it does not compile.

P.P.S. std.demangle fails for some symbols, for example:
	_D3std5array13__T5emptyTyaZ5emptyFNdxAyaZb
	_D3std6format19__T10FormatSpecTyaZ10FormatSpec6__ctorMFNcxAyaZS3std6format19__T10FormatSpecTyaZ10FormatSpec
and many other.

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:25:07 -0400, osa <osa aso.osa> wrote:

 P.S. demangle program example at  
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_demangle.html is broken --  
 it does not compile.
  P.P.S. std.demangle fails for some symbols, for example:
 	_D3std5array13__T5emptyTyaZ5emptyFNdxAyaZb
 	_D3std6format19__T10FormatSpecTyaZ10FormatSpec6__ctorMFNcxAyaZS3std6format19__T10FormatSpecTyaZ10FormatSpec
 and many other.


Note, core.demangle will probably soon replace std.demangle, and is  
actively being developed.  You may need to download the svn version of  
druntime.

ref: http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/phobos/2010-September/002376.html

-Steve

"Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:31:53 +0400, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy yahoo.com> wrote:

 On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:25:07 -0400, osa <osa aso.osa> wrote:

 P.S. demangle program example at  
 http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/phobos/std_demangle.html is broken --  
 it does not compile.
  P.P.S. std.demangle fails for some symbols, for example:
 	_D3std5array13__T5emptyTyaZ5emptyFNdxAyaZb
 	_D3std6format19__T10FormatSpecTyaZ10FormatSpec6__ctorMFNcxAyaZS3std6format19__T10FormatSpecTyaZ10FormatSpec
 and many other.


 Note, core.demangle will probably soon replace std.demangle, and is  
 actively being developed.  You may need to download the svn version of  
 druntime.

 ref:  
 http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/phobos/2010-September/002376.html

 -Steve


IIRC, core.demangle is already in dmd2.049 (i.e. no need for an svn  
version unless there are significant changes in core.demangle in trunk).