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From: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol@dancol.org>
To: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 38492@debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
	kevin.legouguec@gmail.com
Subject: bug#38492: 27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:45:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68c7ed2d3ff837fcfa46cf854551d3fb.squirrel@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8sndmip1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

>> With portable dumping.  I think pure space provides no benefit.
>
> AFAICT, the purespace provides the same benefit with portable dumping as
> it does with unexec.  The benefit is to save time during the GC by not
> traversing the purespace.  It's basically an "old" generation in a kind
> of very restricted form of generational GC.
>
> Maybe purespace is too small compared to typical heap sizes to make
> a significant difference, nowadays.

I think the ratio of dumped-heap to runtime-heap is high enough these days
that the pure optimization you're describing doesn't really matter. I
think we need a better general-purpose GC that does generational tracking
even after the dump and without purespace's restriction against
intergenerational pointers. Whether that's something we reuse or write, I
don't know yet, but I have some ideas for how we can combine these
techniques with our conservative stack scanning.






  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-15 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-04 19:02 bug#38492: 27.0.50; Warn pdumper users when pure space has been overflowed Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-06  8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-06 16:37   ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-06 16:49     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-12-06 18:51       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-06 19:02         ` dancol
2019-12-07  4:48           ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-07  7:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-15 20:41             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-15 20:45               ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2019-12-17  3:09               ` Richard Stallman
2019-12-14 11:42           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-14 14:09             ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2019-12-15 20:33           ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-15 20:41             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-12-17  3:09             ` Richard Stallman

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