On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 11:57:40 UTC, Chris wrote:
Question: did it start to feel sluggish after you found out it used the Boehm collector or before? Sometimes programs `feel` fast or sluggish according to what you know about them. Yet benchmarking can prove your intuition wrong.
No, I'm objective ;-). It has always felt sluggish, how much depends on the version and the load. Maybe recent versions are less sluggish under high load, I assume they have spent some effort on improvements.
