From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: marking overhead, and on the cost of conditionals in hot code Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:48:07 +0000 Message-ID: <49dd78620901171048n1946754bm5cae2085610604f1@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232218101 14257 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2009 18:48:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:48:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: "Andy Wingo" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 17 19:49:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LOGEd-0005UM-Od for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:49:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOGDN-0007DN-1L for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOGDK-0007DA-OF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:48:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LOGDJ-0007C2-Gs for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49037 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOGDJ-0007Br-AJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:36807) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOGDI-0005zK-Qq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1053818fgb.30 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:48:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=eyAkaemv2Z9twvEUMyZvfHHc9vaWrQX+5sefqATDFvA=; b=WGtOdWmARKu+9/C3F/fHyqUQAVtHrR7K/zdkDCyetIm3lt1dBw8pBn7fK/oU/wSudI Tlev63H8S+tJDbCUJq9ThAZdtyqZKG1Y5qj766sedKDmzP5XzxKFJt58F6ORtPx3tK4h 2cQkpjMhdHmK4siKg6+2/IAH0c42O3hCSlH8A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=hhz1/uUgQJJbTYvC9s5rPCtxmdu5WLX9GFPjHxe/xXt3nW0zu8uTGCeeS3Hh5PQkhp qkgIzcP6PAtXk3KtMPKGr8bw5OtKBhPWK7YmuX9retXmN6mEbZ2ABzghTBOpOw2iyiKL AjEfMK+t8842ldjmNU2i9DaPMdFYMsPPKuU0I= Original-Received: by 10.86.89.20 with SMTP id m20mr1925945fgb.71.1232218087827; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:48:07 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.86.74.2 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:48:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:8047 Archived-At: 2009/1/16 Andy Wingo : > > If I thought that we'd keep our GC, I would work at inlining this > function, i think. It seems like a lot of things are starting to depend on whether or not we move to BDW-GC. (This, the fix I just did for NetBSD, scm_init_guile, forthcoming work on threads and mutex locking inconsistencies, ...) We should aim to reach a definitive decision on this soon! Neil