Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch:
Changeset: r45867:6d9fbc591141
Date: 2011-07-21 17:08 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/6d9fbc591141/
Log: Update this piece of doc.
diff --git a/pypy/doc/config/translation.gc.txt
b/pypy/doc/config/translation.gc.txt
--- a/pypy/doc/config/translation.gc.txt
+++ b/pypy/doc/config/translation.gc.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-Choose the Garbage Collector used by the translated program:
+Choose the Garbage Collector used by the translated program.
+The good performing collectors are "hybrid" and "minimark".
+The default is "minimark".
- "ref": reference counting. Takes very long to translate and the result is
slow.
@@ -11,3 +13,12 @@
older generation.
- "boehm": use the Boehm conservative GC.
+
+ - "hybrid": a hybrid collector of "generation" together with a
+ mark-n-sweep old space
+
+ - "markcompact": a slow, but memory-efficient collector,
+ influenced e.g. by Smalltalk systems.
+
+ - "minimark": a generational mark-n-speed collector with good
+ performance. Includes page marking for large arrays.
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