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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, tyler@tdodge.consulting
Subject: Re: "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conses performance improved by 50%?
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 07:19:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-d3cc81b6-b772-4bd5-a4ab-81416c36853a-1667020741795@3c-app-mailcom-bs08> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnT04otjCHxSi1dZHDr4yApA8h-_MbEH6nT7uy64vpcxQ@mail.gmail.com>


> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 5:07 PM
> From: "Stefan Kangas" <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> To: "Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Cc: tyler@tdodge.consulting
> Subject: "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conses performance improved by 50%?
>
> In this blog post
> 
> https://tdodge.consulting/blog/living-the-emacs-garbage-collection-dream
> 
> the author asserts that a one-line patch "reduces the total wall clock
> duration for sweep conses execution by approximately 50%", at least in
> one benchmark.  There are some caveats; read the blog post for the
> full story.
> 
> The patch can be found here:
> 
> https://github.com/tyler-dodge/emacs/commit/36d2a8d5a4f741ae99540e139fff2621bbacfbaa
> 
> Is this a change we could/should realistically make in Emacs?
 
I give my approval for it. 



  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-29  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-29  5:07 "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conses performance improved by 50%? Stefan Kangas
2022-10-29  5:19 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2022-10-29  5:41 ` Po Lu
2022-10-29  6:07   ` Tyler Dodge
2022-10-29 14:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-30  0:53       ` Po Lu
2023-02-11 20:10     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-12 21:58       ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2023-02-13 20:07         ` Konstantin Kharlamov

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