On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > > "Marco Maggi": > > > > 4. If a garbage collector allows to remove the need for > > "scm_remember_upto_here" it must be adopted even if it > > makes Guile slower and it raises memory usage a bit (or > > more than a bit). > > If we replace "should" with "must", I agree. > > Regarding the HBGC, a few nonscientific tests earlier this year > showed that HBGC had _much_ lower latency than Guile's garbage > collector. > > I am planning to measure the difference in latency properly > quite soon, and if what I suspect is correct, that the HBGC > has significant lower latency, this is another "should" > for replacing the old one, even if the new one is a little > bit slower and use a little bit more memory. >
Oh, and another thing. My tests (available in the guile-devel archives) also showed that the HBGC version usually use a bit less memory than Guile's old garbage collector. (Yet another "should" for replacing. :-) ) _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user
