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Re: Gen GC?
mlivshin@bigfoot.com writes:
> > I can't really tell, but the memory footprint for large scores is
> > ludicrous, and memory accesses are very spread out causing the program
> > to trash. Someone is trying to typeset the Brahms piano concerto, and
> hmmm... GenGC per se won't be helpful here, I'm afraid.
> can you check where (code-wise) does Guile touch a lot of pages? if
> it's under scm_gc_sweep, than perhaps I should implement lazy sweeping
> first...
I'll have to think about this; I'm not sure how I can trace this.
What exactly is lazy sweeping?
> you could also try configuring a recent Guile version with
> --enable-debug-malloc and see whether you leak smob memory.
I looked into this some time ago, and plugged all leaks.
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