Re: The status of JIT compiler of Guile

2017-03-08 Thread Nala Ginrut
Hi Andy! Sorry for late replay, it seems I've filtered your mail to another TAG in my mailbox. On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: > Heya Nala :-) > > And hello Atsuro! I don't think I have had the chance of expressing to > you how impressive your work is.

Re: the page size bug

2017-03-08 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 08 Mar 2017 22:32, Mike Gran writes: > On Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:42 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi, > >> The problem with the malloc path is that not only is it a bit slower, as >> it has to page in data that might not be needed, it doesn't share

the page size bug

2017-03-08 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, Guile 2.2 uses ELF to format its object files. ELF objects are composed of *sections* and *segments*. Sections are things like .data, .strtab, and so on; segments contain sections with similar permissions (read-only, read-write, etc). See