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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC brokenness in `master'
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:08:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r614diq9.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877i2x7x6l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed\, 11 Mar 2009 00\:52\:34 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>     ("subr.bm: subr invocation: simple subr" 700000 total 0.98)
>>     ("subr.bm: subr invocation: generic subr" 700000 total 1.39)
>>     ("subr.bm: subr invocation: generic subr with rest arg" 700000 total 1.32)
>>     ("subr.bm: subr invocation: generic subr with rest arg and 3+ parameters" 700000 total 1.63)
>
> "Interestingly", this is roughly twice as slow as 1.8 (!).
>
> After some manual bisecting, I found the offending commit (dated
> 2008-08-16):
>
>   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=82ae1b8eb3413e6be6bd2aa032986fc7782e85ac

But presumably this doesn't matter much, if we are going to switch to
BDW-GC.  What's your latest thinking on that?

> Strangely enough, the "simple subr" case, which is not GC-intensive, is
> slower with BDW-GC.  This needs further investigation...

It's not very much slower - and IMO, not serious enough to be a
significant factor against BDW-GC.

But it's nicer to understand things fully, so I agree that
investigation would be good too.

       Neil




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-16  0:22 Putting an end to "compiled closures" Ludovic Courtès
2009-02-23 22:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-01 23:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-08 16:18   ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-10 23:52     ` GC brokenness in `master' Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-11  0:08       ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-03-11  9:23         ` Ludovic Courtès

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