l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello! > > I merged `master' in the `boehm-demers-weiser-gc' branch yesterday, > which hadn't been done since before 1.9.0 (no, you won't see the 4 MiB+ > commit message on `guile-commits'...). > > So now is a good time to test it and report back! It requires libgc 7.1 > or later, which isn't packaged in Debian, although it was released in > May 2008. > It's in experimental since recently; I assume its maintainer will upload to unstable soonish.
> > I'll post updated comparative benchmarks hopefully in the next few days. > Will going from a precise GC to BDW-GC not have drawbacks? IIRC, the PLT people went in the opposite direction. A quick google turned up this: http://www.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2006-June/013840.html I wonder if the reasons for switching to a precise GC listed in there will also apply to Guile. Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
