Re: Why bother porting Guile to BDW-GC?

Hi, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm all for scrapping code; here are my concerns: - what is the performance impact? - does BDW GC handle weak references correctly? - What about various (undoubtedly little used) areas where GC interacts with the interpreter: port

Re: Comparing Guile's GC with BDW-GC

Hello, Han-Wen Nienhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder whether this is a useful benchmark. 1.54 mb is small compared to the 2mb L2 cache of a core duo. I think it's best to look at tests that exercise a larger working set. You're right. These are not GC benchmarks anyway, but I wanted