Hi Neil,
Neil Jerram [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 05/11/2008, Ludovic Courtès [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally [0] conducted experiments to compare Guile's GC with my port
of Guile to the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC (BDW-GC). The code for that port
is not currently available on-line but
Hello Guilers!
Below are some of the points (in no particular order) that IMO can make
it worthwhile to use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC [0] in Guile instead of
Guile's historical GC, from an engineering viewpoint.
1. Less code to maintain, in particular less complex and non-portable
code.
Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
Hello!
heap size (MiB) execution time (s.)
Guile1.54 (1.00x) 6.316 (1.00x)
BDW-GC, FSD=32.41 (1.57x) 4.943 (0.78x)
I wonder whether this is a useful benchmark. 1.54 mb is small compared
to the 2mb L2 cache
Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
Hello!
I finally [0] conducted experiments to compare Guile's GC with my port
of Guile to the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC (BDW-GC). The code for that port
is not currently available on-line but I'd be happy to push it somewhere
(would Guile's repo at Savannah be a good
Ludovic Courtès escreveu:
Hello Guilers!
Below are some of the points (in no particular order) that IMO can make
it worthwhile to use the Boehm-Demers-Weiser GC [0] in Guile instead of
Guile's historical GC, from an engineering viewpoint.
I'm all for scrapping code; here are my concerns:
