Hi Neil, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> After some manual bisecting, I found the offending commit (dated >> 2008-08-16): >> >> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=82ae1b8eb3413e6be6bd2aa032986fc7782e85ac > > But presumably this doesn't matter much, if we are going to switch to > BDW-GC. What's your latest thinking on that? Yes, I'm still considering switching GCs anyway, but I wanted to know what happened exactly (and whether it was really a GC issue, which wasn't 100% obvious). While doing this, I remembered that Valgrind can't be used with BDW-GC, which can be annoying. I'll email the GC list about that. >> Strangely enough, the "simple subr" case, which is not GC-intensive, is >> slower with BDW-GC. This needs further investigation... > > It's not very much slower - and IMO, not serious enough to be a > significant factor against BDW-GC. Agreed. > But it's nicer to understand things fully, so I agree that > investigation would be good too. Yes. Thanks, Ludo'.
