cosmopolitan/tool/plinko
Justine Tunney f7780de24b
Make realloc() go 100x faster on Linux/NetBSD
Cosmopolitan now supports mremap(), which is only supported on Linux and
NetBSD. First, it allows memory mappings to be relocated without copying
them; this can dramatically speed up data structures like std::vector if
the array size grows larger than 256kb. The mremap() system call is also
10x faster than munmap() when shrinking large memory mappings.

There's now two functions, getpagesize() and getgransize() which help to
write portable code that uses mmap(MAP_FIXED). Alternative sysconf() may
be called with our new _SC_GRANSIZE. The madvise() system call now has a
better wrapper with improved documentation.
2024-07-07 12:40:30 -07:00
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lib Make realloc() go 100x faster on Linux/NetBSD 2024-07-07 12:40:30 -07:00
BUILD.mk Stop using .com extension in monorepo 2024-03-03 03:12:19 -08:00
plinko.c flip et / noet in modelines 2023-12-07 22:17:11 -05:00
README.txt WIP: Correct all typos (#498) 2022-07-20 14:01:15 -07:00

DESCRIPTION

  plinko is a simple lisp interpreter that takes advantage of advanced
  operating system features irrespective of their practicality such as
  using the nsa instruction popcount for mark sweep garbage collection
  overcommit memory, segment registers, and other dirty hacks that the
  popular interpreters cannot do; this lets plinko gain a considerable
  performance edge while retaining an event greater edge in simplicity

  We hope you find these sources informative, educational, and possibly
  useful too. Lisp source code, written in its dialect is included too
  under //tool/plinko/lib and unit tests which clarify their usage can
  be found in //test/tool/plinko.

BENCHMARK

  binary trees (n=21)

    - sbcl:     200 ms (native jit;  simulated arithmetic)
    - plinko:   400 ms (interpreted; simulated arithmetic)
    - python3:  800 ms (interpreted;    native arithmetic)
    - racket:  1200 ms (interpreted; simulated arithmetic)

AUTHOR

  Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney <jtunney@gmail.com>

LICENSE

  ISC

SEE ALSO

  SectorLISP
  SectorLambda