From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Serious GC problem in HEAD Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:11:09 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS Message-ID: <87y7ptnf5e.fsf@laas.fr> References: <874pte9sz3.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87slgxkjwf.fsf@laas.fr> <87odritfzl.fsf@laas.fr> <874pshddzm.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164899577 7975 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2006 15:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 16:12:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpnZk-0006ge-9P for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:11:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpnZj-0001QS-NG for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpnZh-0001ON-1Q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpnZf-0001Kt-Hh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpnZf-0001Km-FE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:11:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.93.0.15] (helo=laas.laas.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1GpnZf-0001Os-3L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:11:43 -0500 Original-Received: from messiaen.laas.fr (messiaen [IPv6:2001:660:6602:0:230:65ff:fed4:9d20]) by laas.laas.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAUFBekS013449; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:11:40 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by messiaen.laas.fr (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:11:10 +0100 Original-To: Neil Jerram X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 Frimaire an 215 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu Mail-Followup-To: Neil Jerram , Guile Development In-Reply-To: <874pshddzm.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:34:05 +1100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0.306 () MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR,NO_RELAYS X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS on IPv6:2001:660:6602::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:6270 Archived-At: Hi, Kevin Ryde writes: > There's really no need to remove globals for their own sake, only one > gc ever runs of course ... The point in removing them is to clarify the flow of information, that is, how GC stats are updated and used. Believe me, it _was_ hard to follow with globals. And Guile is about functional programming, isn't it? ;-) > I've lost track of what it actually improves or fixes :-). It's mostly a "cleanup" patch: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2005-12/msg00095.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2006-01/msg00009.html Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel