Re: impressions on gc

2012-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Noah, Noah Lavine skribis: > As long as we're pinging people for 2.0.5, I don't think this patch > ever got pushed. :-) Apparently it was applied as 4eb286127c41e67eb90ef1b69f61f613bcd830b2. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: impressions on gc

2012-01-19 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, As long as we're pinging people for 2.0.5, I don't think this patch ever got pushed. :-) I can't build master right now. This is partly my fault for doing so little sysadmin work that I still have libgc 7.1, but I still think this one should really, really be in 2.0.5 if the GC changes wil

Re: impressions on gc

2011-12-08 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 08 Dec 2011 16:46, "Chris K. Jester-Young" writes: > Alas, part of that diff also breaks libgc 7.1 (which is the version that > Debian currently has packaged), which lack the unmapping functions. > Here's my diff to make it work again. Thanks for the patch! In the future a git-format-pat

Re: impressions on gc

2011-12-08 Thread Chris K. Jester-Young
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:09:12AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > One change was to make GC run more often when a process is growing, in > terms of resident memory size. This seems to be a good idea in general. > > The other was to add a function that users can call to note > non-gc-managed allocatio

impressions on gc

2011-12-01 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, I recently poked some GC-related things in stable-2.0 and master. One change was to make GC run more often when a process is growing, in terms of resident memory size. This seems to be a good idea in general. The other was to add a function that users can call to note non-gc-managed allocat