ICFP presentation
Stephen Weeks
MLton@sourcelight.com
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:11:37 -0700
> The presentation looks good. For the compile-time performance
> slide, can't you have a bar chart for (a) overall compile-time
> with different bars for each important phase, and (b) for a representative
> set of benchmarks, a bar chart indicating the number of contified
> functions that exist after contification using the A_call and A_dom
> analyses? I think a graphics for these two metrics would be really
> useful.
I agree wrt (b). The number of remaining functions as a bar chart using the
same six benchmarks would be nice. You could even normalize stuff to show how
many original functions were there as well. This graph would reinforce
* that A_call and A_dom consistently beat A_cont
* the positive correlation between amount of contification and run time
* that A_dom almost always contifies more than A_cont -- this helps bring out
the point about anomalies
As to (a), I think the <4% is enough. And we're already hurting for time.