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dnfield opened this issue Dec 16, 2020 · 5 comments
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Evaluate cost and benefit of pointer compression #44481

dnfield opened this issue Dec 16, 2020 · 5 comments
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area-vm Use area-vm for VM related issues, including code coverage, and the AOT and JIT backends. P2 A bug or feature request we're likely to work on type-enhancement A request for a change that isn't a bug vm-aot-memory-footprint Related to improvements of VM memory footprint for AOT deployments
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dnfield commented Dec 16, 2020

Dart uses 64 bit pointers on 64 bit architectures, even if the device is a small mobile device with less than 4GB of addressable ram.

Enabling pointer compression could substantially reduce memory consumption, but carries a maintenance burden for the VM team - it cannot be the only option since Dart still would need to be able to address >4GB on the server/desktop, and would not want to pay a performance penality for doing so.

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dnfield commented Apr 19, 2021

@rmacnak-google this is probably done right?

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dnfield commented Apr 19, 2021

At least in terms of evluation? :)

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a-siva commented May 27, 2021

Let us use this issue for tracking the feature landing and not close it yet.

@a-siva a-siva added type-enhancement A request for a change that isn't a bug P2 A bug or feature request we're likely to work on labels May 27, 2021
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a-siva commented Oct 28, 2021

The Android version of this has landed and is in use by Flutter on ARM64.
Keeping this open till we turn it on for iOS also (will be done after the branch for 2.15 stable is cut).

Moving milestone for this.

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a-siva commented Dec 1, 2021

Pointer compression work has landed.

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