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Re: GUILE's GC - why we struggling to solve already solved pr oblems ? (was Re: finding the top of the stack in linux)



> > > Boehm's GC has A LOT OF things to make efficieng GC in specuial
> > > cases possible.  Of course it's not for everyone and thus you must
> > > use some internal functions.  Still it's possible (the same
> > > gcj_mlc.c will be good example). Of course it's quite possible then
> > > general-purpose GC still will be less efficient then special-purpose
> > > GUILE's one. There are no way to know without actual try.
> > 
> > I'm very interested in seeing the results of an actual try.  Would you
> > be willing to try the experiment, and tell us how it goes?
> 
> But wasn't that the very experiment han-wen conducted this morning?

Han-wen says that was just a quick-and-dirty try.  It slowed down
Guile by 70%, but I'm interested in seeing the result when folks make
proper use of Boehm's stubborn allocation, precise marking, etc.


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