From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: garbage collection slowdown Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:19:52 +0100 Message-ID: <8736bn7hvr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877e11m2ao.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="95144"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: Guile Devel , Han-Wen Nienhuys To: Mikael Djurfeldt Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 06 18:20:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1izkp2-000Ofp-8H for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:20:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1izkp1-0002Fu-AB for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:20:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39839) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1izkok-0002Dr-Tz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:19:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1izkok-0007yQ-F1; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:19:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:660:6102:320:e120:2c8f:8909:cdfe] (port=33218 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1izkok-0007Y8-0F; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:19:54 -0500 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 18 =?utf-8?Q?Pluvi=C3=B4se?= an 228 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:06:14 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20398 Archived-At: Hi Mikael! Mikael Djurfeldt 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=E2=80=99ve been mostly =E2=80=9Cend users=E2=80=9D of libgc, ass= uming the right design decisions were made and not touching it much. Overall it=E2=80=99s worked quite well, which is why I=E2=80=99m surprised by what Han-Wen repor= ts, and I don=E2=80=99t feel like diving in libgc. :-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.