From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tags in the 3 lowest bits
Date: 21 Nov 2003 10:32:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvisldrb7e.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvllqb2j9y.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca>
> OTOH, small arrays are already inefficient (because each array, no matter
> how small, is added to the memory-map (a binary tree) used for conservative
> stack marking). So maybe we should begin by changing the handling of small
> arrays (similar to what is done for strings, although I'm not quite sure
> what it would look like).
Of course, an alternative would be to switch to BoehmGC.
Dave Love has started work on this and it would be interesting to see
how it works out in practice (what kind of impact it has on memory
footprint and CPU usage).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-19 19:15 tags in the 3 lowest bits Stefan Monnier
2003-11-20 0:28 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-19 23:32 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-20 5:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-20 10:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-20 9:31 ` Miles Bader
2003-11-20 10:49 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-22 21:18 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-20 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-21 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-11-22 0:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-21 23:56 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-22 1:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2003-11-24 0:08 ` Stefan Monnier
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