[llvm-dev] Memory usage with MCJit

[David Blaikie via llvm-dev]

+Lang for JIT things.

On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 8:50 AM koffie drinker via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm building a runtime that  can jit and execute code. I've followed the
> kaleidoscope tutorial and had a couple of questions. Basically I have a
> pre-compiler that compiles the code to cache objects. These cached objects
> are then persisted  and used to reduce Jit compile time.
>
> 1. I took the approach of 1 execution engine with multiple modules (I'm
> not removing modules once they have been added). During profiling, I
> noticed that the memory usage is high with a lot of code. How can I reduce
> the memory usage? Is one execution engine per module preferred? I would
> imagine that this would take up more memory.
>
> 2. When I add a module and jit it, can I invoke a remove module and still
> be able to execute the compiled function?
>
> 3. Is it better to have one runtime mem manager that will be associated
> with multiple execution engines (one engine per module)? Using this
> approach I could throw away the execution engines once they have jitted the
> code. I probably need to take ownership of the jitted code somehow. Are
> there any examples available on how this could be achieved?
>
> cheers,
>
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