On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm working on F# support for Mono > > How stable is SGEN? The F# compiler runs 50% faster with it and haven't > seen any problems so far >
I'm always happy to know that sgen is faster than boehm on some workload. Do you think SGEN is > (a) not to be trusted at all yet > (b) stable enough to use in the bootstrap process (where only people > bootstrapping the compiler itself would use it) > (c) stable enough to use by default for anyone using the compiler? > > I guess the answers could be different for 2.10.9 and 2.11. > > Sgen is not as solid as boehm since it did not receive a decade of bugfixing and testing. So, if you need rock solid stability over anything else, boehm is the right choice today. Said that, sgen did receive a humongous amount of testing and stabilization work over the past 18 months that I say it should be stable to use by anyone. Sgen is the only GC available on Xamarin's Android product, for example. I suggest that you should use it and, if you find bugs, file them as they will be fixed.
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