> Is this not evidence to support the assumption that sophisticated register allocation does not matter as much as we thought?
It's an indication but it doesn't sufficiently support the conclusion. There are so many other things to consider.
> Is this not evidence to support the assumption that sophisticated escape analysis algorithms do matter?
Would you as a scientist seriously accept this as a sufficient evidence for your claims?
But let's leave it at that for the moment. As far as I know there are ongoing research projects which could deliver more insights why specifically a Smalltalk VM runs faster on Gral than anywhere else.
> Would you as a scientist seriously accept this as a sufficient evidence for your claims?
It was a comment on a web page dude... I didn't claim it in a research paper for publication!
If we discourage others from more casually sharing our observations as you're doing we'll miss opportunities to find things to form hypotheses from in the first place! Casual discussion in the community is part of science, something to be encouraged, and you're sadly missing something by dismissing it like this.
Ok, that sounds like a response to my initial question Are there any papers or articles about the mentioned findings?
Casually sharing observations is a good thing, and even better when there is some detail information available which makes it possible to understand the propositions sufficiently well and to assess how certain the conclusions are.
It's an indication but it doesn't sufficiently support the conclusion. There are so many other things to consider.
> Is this not evidence to support the assumption that sophisticated escape analysis algorithms do matter?
Would you as a scientist seriously accept this as a sufficient evidence for your claims?
But let's leave it at that for the moment. As far as I know there are ongoing research projects which could deliver more insights why specifically a Smalltalk VM runs faster on Gral than anywhere else.