Greetings!
Raymond Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Camm Maguire wrote:
> > Raymond Toy writes:
> >
> >>On the sparc port, this area can be zeroed out with appropriate
> >>optimization settings. I ran some tests using Eric Marsden's
> >>cl-bench. If the stack is always cleared, the cost of so
Camm Maguire wrote:
Raymond Toy writes:
On the sparc port, this area can be zeroed out with appropriate
optimization settings. I ran some tests using Eric Marsden's
cl-bench. If the stack is always cleared, the cost of some
benchmarks go up, but some go down, because the cost of GC is
decrea
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Bryce McKinlay
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:55 AM
> > To: Ranjit Mathew
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Uninitialized stack g
Greetings! GCL is a lisp system that compiles to native object code
via the intermediary of gcc. It uses a conservative garbage
collection algorithm, which means that it walks the C stack to find
likely objects in use by automatic variables, and holds on to these.
This works quite well in practic
