From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile + Boehm GC: First Remarks Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:39 +0200 Message-ID: <45364B6F.1060202@xs4all.nl> References: <877j42r32u.fsf@laas.fr> <87irnmt0nk.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87ac8x8g35.fsf@laas.fr> <87lksgqv1r.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <877j3zlofr.fsf@laas.fr> <87d58svh35.fsf@laas.fr> Reply-To: hanwen@xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161186223 4984 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2006 15:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 17:43:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaDZx-00037H-J0 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:43:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaDZx-0001N1-13 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaDZr-0001Ek-8P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GaDZl-000134-71 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaDZl-00012i-1f for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GaDZk-0003sv-TX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:43:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GaDZK-00030U-I1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from muurbloem.xs4all.nl ([213.84.26.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from hanwen by muurbloem.xs4all.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:42:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: muurbloem.xs4all.nl User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061008) In-Reply-To: <87d58svh35.fsf@laas.fr> X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6161 Archived-At: Ludovic Courtès schreef: > Hi Han-Wen, > > Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès schreef: >>> But please, relax about performance, we still haven't run any meaningful >>> benchmark. ;-) >> btw, is there any news on this patch? I'm quite keen on dumping >> LilyPond's Rational class in favor of Scheme rationals, but adding gc >> mark functions for that is just too much work; BGC would be a nice >> soluiton to this. > > Well, no real news. My "not-so-meaningful benchmarks" (running a > loop[*]) reproductively show that "GBGC" is noticeably slower than "real > Guile" (1.5 to 2 times slower). On larger samples the difference gets smaller. With a 128mb footprint (GC tree benchmark), the difference is that BGC is just 23% slower, -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel