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Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes: > > > Which would people prefer? > > > 1) Guile becomes slower overall, but does not pause noticeable for GC. > > > 2) Guile becomes faster overall, and most GC pauses become > > > unnoticable, but does still pause occsionally? > > > > > > (Mikael, have I correctly represented the choice?) > > > > Yes. > > I don't think it has to or should be one or the other. The thing about > it is that the second will be dealt with first, unless there's someone > else out there who wants to work on an incremental gc right now; if > not, I'd give it a tackle after I finish what I'm doing now, That sounds great. > > Slowing down Guile by, for example, 25% isn't a major drawback. > > Well, let's not go nuts ;) (although, with the plummet prices of > hardware, we probably don't have to be too anal about performance, but > I'm not a big fan of the 'buy a new computer to run this software' > train of thought). Neither am I, in fact I really hate my 10Mb Netscape process... Don't worry. Usually, people accuse me of paying too much attention to efficiency in Guile. I'm looking forward to beta test your GC! /mdj