On 9/18/06, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Adam Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Bolt-on tracing GC such as Boehm-Demers-Weiser. Totally unsupported > > by the C standards and changes cache characteristics that CPython has > > been designed with for years, likely with a very large performance > > penalty. > > Last time I did some GC benchmarks (unrelated to Python), Boehm GC > came up surprisingly fast. I suppose it's faster than malloc + > reference counting (not sure how much amortizing malloc calls helps).
I expect Boehm would do very well in applications suited for it. I just don't think that includes CPython, especially with all the third-party C libraries. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
