tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862878851303132605.post2451541300925805234..comments2023-06-07T10:48:04.238-04:00Comments on Notes on the LHC: Nursery sizes.SamBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06560268240719951351noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862878851303132605.post-5488956475264549542014-12-29T08:51:59.504-05:002014-12-29T08:51:59.504-05:00This is a test of the nursery so the mutator doesn...This is a test of the nursery so the mutator doesn't run at all. I'm repeated allocating dead objects in the nursery to see how many are overwritten in cache without being sent to main memory.<br /><br />Branch misses does increase as the nursery gets smaller but it's still a fraction of 1 percent.David Himmelstruphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12982136700651117492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862878851303132605.post-85284004734465328942014-12-29T08:35:58.253-05:002014-12-29T08:35:58.253-05:00Are you GCing so often that you're killing you...Are you GCing so often that you're killing your branch predictor? I expect you're spending >>50% of the time in GC, and some GC branches (type tag tests in particular) tend to be unpredictable.J-W Maessenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01577860012705910561noreply@blogger.com