My experience is that allocation is the primary thing to look for to improve performance.
Robby On Tuesday, August 24, 2010, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Catching up with some mail. > > Neil wrote: > >> Avoiding allocation reduces GC collects, which reduces stutters and hitches. > > My (possibly old) understanding of GC and mutation tell me that this is one > of those prejudices that programmers should get rid of. Every mutation goes > across an access barrier in a GC like ours and can thus be much more > expensive than a lightweight allocation. This was certainly true for early > generational collectors. I do know that the hordes of Java programmers who > invaded GCLand forced GC builders to make C/C++-like programs in Java work > reasonably fast with collectors and so collectors changed. > > Matthew, do you know what it's really like for us? > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
