On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:58:12 +0100 Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Simon, > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:06:22AM -0800, Simon Burton wrote: > > I've taken some statistics on how the boehm gc performs with our current > > application, > > it has terrible worst case performance, often stopping for hundreds of mS > > at a time. > > What is the context? It's unclear to me if you're talking about PyPy > the Python interpreter, another stand-alone RPython program, or a > CPython extension module translated from RPython. Either of the first two. > > In all cases but the latter you should definitely try our own GCs > instead of Boehm. The generational GC in particular, while not > real-time in any sense of the word, is probably the one with the least > amount of long pauses - most collections are very quick. I am hoping to be working with top of tree again soon and will let you know what i find. thankyou, Simon. > > > A bientot, > > Armin _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
