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From: Han-Wen <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Subject: lazy sweeping.
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 01:32:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15684.32520.154258.348830@blauw.xs4all.nl> (raw)


Here are some results of my lazy sweeping implementation:

Java tree benchmark 

 1.7.0:  
 time ~/usr/bin/guile -s  /tmp/GCBench.scheme.txt 

   user	2m20.350s
   sys	0m0.310s


 1.7.0 + newgc + lazy sweeping
 time ./libguile/.libs/lt-guile -s /tmp/GCBench.scheme.txt

   user	2m20.120s
   sys	0m0.240s

Nothing spectacular. But now checkout ... the startup time!
(this is the time for starting guile, and then pressing ^D)

	1.7.0:  
	time ~/usr/bin/guile

	user	0m0.170s
	sys	0m0.000s


	1.7.0 + newgc + lazy sweeping  
	user	0m0.090s
	sys	0m0.010s


The lazy sweeping approximately halves the startup time of GUILE. I
consider the old GC beat; when can we start integrating this? 

  http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/public/guile/lazy-sweeping.tar.gz

Implementation notes:

 * Lazy sweeping sounds like a feature, but it actually leads to
   simpler, more natural code than the old sweeping code.

 * Various debug functions (mainly those having to do with checking
   the freelist) become moot; I removed them.

 * I removed SCM_FREECELL_P(). It's meaning has become ambiguous.

 * Lazy sweeping naturally complements multi-threaded use: whenever a
   thread runs out of free cells, we can simply sweep a few (say 512)
   cells, and return that for private use by that thread. 

 * Et ceteram censeo GUILE 1.6 releasem esse.

-- 

Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   hanwen@cs.uu.nl   |   http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen 

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-07-28 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-28 23:32 Han-Wen [this message]
2002-07-29  0:07 ` lazy sweeping Michael Livshin
2002-07-29  9:48   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-29 10:14     ` Michael Livshin
2002-07-29 12:40       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-29 13:00         ` Michael Livshin
2002-07-29 13:06           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-30 10:09   ` Han-Wen
2002-07-30 12:10     ` Michael Livshin
2002-07-29  4:31 ` Tom Lord
2002-07-29 15:17   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-07-29 13:16 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2002-07-29 13:22   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys

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