On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 04:47:29PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, folks, time to sync up your CVS trees. I've put in an arena > allocator for string headers. No checking for dead ones or GC yet, so > it still leaks like a sieve, but it leaks much faster.
:-) > FWIW, things speed up from 80 gen/sec to 100 gen/sec on this 600MHz > G3 iBook, with no swapping in either case that I can detect. We'll > lose that when we do real GC, but for now... If we're allowed totally arbitrary quotes (not just Lord of the Rings) in parrot, could I suggest one inspired by your above description. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear starts They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea! Nicholas Clark -- EMCFT http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/CV.html