From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure GMP to use GC allocation functions, remove bignum finalizers Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:14:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87vcwnq10i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tycaodlk.fsf@netris.org> <87k4d6edvr.fsf@gnu.org> <8739jue9wk.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307056518 15345 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2011 23:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 23:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Neil Jerram To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 01:15:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSH6f-0007P9-HN for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:15:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSH6e-000316-1X for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSH69-00030V-Mm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSH68-0007vn-7h for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:53572) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSH67-0007vj-Sa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from nixey (reverse-83.fdn.fr [80.67.176.83]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: lcourtes) by smtp.fdn.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C5C4044313; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 01:14:38 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 15 Prairial an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:34:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 80.67.169.19 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12562 Archived-At: Hi, Andy Wingo skribas: > What if we get libgc to track total heap size (whether the user has > malloc, g_slice_alloc, or whatever), and start doing GC more frequently > if it sees the total heap size going up? That would be ideal, of course. Ludo'.