Bug 69208 - JavaScriptCore does not have automatic tuning of optimization heuristics
Summary: JavaScriptCore does not have automatic tuning of optimization heuristics
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: JavaScriptCore (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: All All
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Depends on: 69201 69207
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Reported: 2011-10-01 00:44 PDT by Filip Pizlo
Modified: 2011-10-01 00:44 PDT (History)
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Description Filip Pizlo 2011-10-01 00:44:17 PDT 
The optimization heuristics used in JavaScriptCore are ad hoc, and have not been rigorously tuned.  But they could be tuned automatically by performing a grid search for a given subset of paremeters until a (local) maximum throughput is found.