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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
Cc: Guile Devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: garbage collection slowdown
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:19:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736bn7hvr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2XvwLTSchXN2UfGoe9BgqKXsOFvzyJpeqNndzC3VRiHnyABg@mail.gmail.com> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:06:14 +0100")

Hi Mikael!

Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> skribis:

> Could the frequency of GC be adapted similarly such that the balance
> between GC and allocation is shifted towards allocation in phases with a
> lot of heap growth?

I guess we’ve been mostly “end users” of libgc, assuming the right
design decisions were made and not touching it much.  Overall it’s
worked quite well, which is why I’m surprised by what Han-Wen reports,
and I don’t feel like diving in libgc.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.



      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-06 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 22:41 garbage collection slowdown Han-Wen Nienhuys
2020-01-29  0:47 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2020-01-29  7:17 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2020-02-01  9:34 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2020-02-05 16:22   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-05 22:31     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2020-02-06 14:06       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2020-02-06 17:19         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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