On Thu 15 Nov 2012 09:42, Thien-Thi Nguyen <t...@gnuvola.org> writes:
> In pre-2.x Guile, ‘gc-stats’ returns an alist w/ keys: > > gc-time-taken > cells-allocated > total-cells-allocated > cell-heap-size > bytes-malloced > gc-malloc-threshold > gc-times > gc-mark-time-taken > cells-marked > cells-swept > malloc-yield > cell-yield > protected-objects > cell-heap-segments > > In Guile 2.0.6, the keys are now: > > gc-time-taken > heap-size > heap-free-size > heap-total-allocated > heap-allocated-since-gc > protected-objects gc-times > > I think the NEWS should mention this change and the documentation should > summarize what the fields mean. The specifics of this interface were never documented, so there's no regression. For that reason I would not add to NEWS at this point, but documentation would be nice. Patches gladly accepted :) > Practically speaking, i am interested mostly in the 2.x equivalent for > pre-2.x ‘bytes-malloced’, as its lack causes Guile-SDL to fail "make > check DEBUG=1": What is the meaning of this field? We could track total allocations registered via scm_gc_register_allocation. Regards, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
