On Nov 21, 1:31 ¨Βν¬ ΓθαςμεΟμιφες Ξυττες Όγθαςμεσ®ξυτ®®®ΐσυξ®γονΎ wrote: > Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > > brab... / gmail.com wrote: > >> $ jruby -J-Xmn128m -J-Xms1024m -J-Xmx1024m -J-server SieveOfZakiya.rb > > >> Error, could not compile; pass -d or > >> -J-Djruby.jit.logging.verbose=true for more details > > > Odd...the main script, or a method in it, must be gi-frigging-gantic to > > blow out the bytecode cap. Glad to see in your results below that with a > > bit of tweaking we're on par with 1.9. I'll look into the compilation > > issue; I know there are a few cases that can still pop the compiler, > > like really big arrays that require a lot of init. > > Yeah, there's several methods there that could easily blow the cap and > have to remain interpreted. The inability to compile the whole file as a > result is probably a large part of the lower perf. The algorithm is also > *extremely* memory-intensive; logging GC on JRuby it had to do multiple > full collections before the first iteration even came back. > > - Charlie I just uploaded a more memory efficient and faster upgrade. Please check it out. Jabari