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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)
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at savonarola dot red-bean dot com>
- Subject: Re: GUILE's GC - why we struggling to solve already solved pr oblems ? (was Re: finding the top of the stack in linux)
- From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:20:11 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: Brent Fulgham <brent dot fulgham at xpsystems dot com>,guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <EDFD2A95EE7DD31187350090279C6767BCB083@THRESHER><m3em4q7sb6.fsf@savonarola.red-bean.com>
- Reply-To: hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl
jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com writes:
> > > 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.
folks should also remember that you don't need to know about GUILE's
GC to do this: when you use Boehm, you can just junk most of gc.c
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/