585881 - earley-boyer v8.5 benchmarks need to be converted to AS3, converted to typed, and optimized

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, defect, P4)

Description

[Lars T Hansen]

Followup item from bug #585564 and bug #585586.

The four variants of this benchmark in test/performance/v8.5 are virtually identical, the only difference apparently the random number generator used in the non-JS versions.

Since it's generated code I don't know if it's meaningful to modify it, but we should at least discuss it.

An AS3 variant would at a minimum replace uses of 'arguments' by '...arguments' and wrap the whole thing in a 'package', and compile with -AS3.

I believe there are uses of 'arguments' that capture that variable that should not need to (thus inhibiting optimization in Tamarin but probably in some JS engines too).

Comment 1

[Andre Kruetzfeldt]

Reassign if you like.