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From: Mark Shinwell <mshinwell@janestreet.com>
To: Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Allocation profiling for x86-64 native code
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:00:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM3Ki74hS1UVmtLVX=95WJMK51nfuBsYnBwPiR+0xMAoDV6oLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379091130.2471.12.camel@e130>

On 13 September 2013 17:52, Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:
> A dumb question: how do you do the value instrumentation? Without space
> overhead? There is not much information in the value itself...

The maximum size of blocks is reduced and then an
approximation to the instruction pointer at the point of
allocation is stored in the spare space in the header
word.  (More detail to follow in a reply to Jacques-Henri.)

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-16  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13 15:48 Mark Shinwell
2013-09-13 16:52 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2013-09-16  8:00   ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2013-09-14 22:10 ` Jacques-Henri Jourdan
2013-09-16  8:42   ` Mark Shinwell

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