Collect method traces with the fast interpreter and the JIT'ed code.
Insert inline code instead of switching to the debug interpreter in the hope
that the time stamps collected in traceview are more close to the real
world behavior with minimal profiling overhead.
Because the inline polling still introduces additional overhead (20% ~ 100%),
it is only enabled in the special VM build called "libdvm_traceview.so".
It won't work on the emulator because it is not implemented to collect the
detailed instruction traces.
Here are some performance numbers using the FibonacciSlow microbenchmark
(ie recursive workloads / the shorter the faster):
time: configuration
8,162,602: profiling off/libdvm.so/JIT off
2,801,829: profiling off/libdvm.so/JIT on
9,952,236: profiling off/libdvm_traceview.so/JIT off
4,465,701: profiling off/libdvm_traceview.so/JIT on
164,786,585: profiling on/libdvm.so/JIT off
164,664,634: profiling on/libdvm.so/JIT on
11,231,707: profiling on/libdvm_traceview.so/JIT off
8,427,846: profiling on/libdvm_traceview.so/JIT on
Comparing the 8,427,846 vs 164,664,634 numbers againt the true baseline
performance number of 2,801,829, the new libdvm_traceview.so improves the time
skew from 58x to 3x.
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