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| author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2015-11-30 15:35:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2016-02-25 14:50:48 +0100 |
| commit | 8f4c278b69fe4d613a0b865a2edac43231cad913 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e55347065faba3a2ae5950935da336fc8ffe7ab /erts/emulator/beam/atom.names | |
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Allow erlang:finish_loading/1 to load more than one module
The BIFs prepare_loading/2 and finish_loading/1 have been
designed to allow fast loading in parallel of many modules.
Because of the complications with on_load functions,
the initial implementation of finish_loading/1 only allowed
a single element in the list of prepared modules.
finish_loading/1 does not suspend other processes, but it must wait
for all schedulers to pass a write barrier ("thread progress"). The
time for all schedulers to pass the write barrier is highly variable,
depending on what kind of code they are executing. Therefore, allowing
finish_loading/1 to finish the loading for more than one module before
passing the write barrier could potentially be much faster than
calling finish_loading/1 multiple times.
The test case many/1 run on my computer shows that with "heavy load",
finish loading of 100 modules in parallel is almost 50 times faster
than loading them sequentially. With "light load", the gain is still
almost 10 times.
Here follows an actual sample of the output from the test case on
my computer (an 2012 iMac):
Light load
==========
Sequential: 22361 µs
Parallel: 2586 µs
Ratio: 9
Heavy load
==========
Sequential: 254512 µs
Parallel: 5246 µs
Ratio: 49
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/atom.names')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names b/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names index 6fb08ee896..a00b22eac0 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/atom.names @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ atom dsend atom dsend_continue_trap atom dunlink atom duplicate_bag +atom duplicated atom dupnames atom einval atom elib_malloc |