At 9:39 AM +0200 4/9/02, Peter Gibbs wrote:
>One option might be a
>threshold - if, after the DOD run, there is still less than N headers
>available, allocate more even though we can satisfy the immediate
>requirement. This would improve performance by reducing the number of DOD
>runs, but at the cost of additional memory - a classic tradeoff!
Yep.
That's one of the reasons I put the counters into the GC system--I
expect some sort of feedback system that dynamically modifies the
allocation quantities for memory and various interpreter structures
is in order.
Anyone care to write one? :) (I went for the simple and relatively
naive way to start mainly just to get something done)
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