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: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:10:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkff6dyr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tycaodlk.fsf@netris.org> <87k4d6edvr.fsf@gnu.org> <8739jue9wk.fsf@neil-laptop.ossau.uklinux.net> <87zkfh9x8r.fsf@pobox.com> <8762i5mf4x.fsf@gnu.org> <87r50ranub.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322521821 27911 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2011 23:10:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:10:21 +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 Tue Nov 29 00:10:15 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 1RVAL0-0001sx-JD for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:10:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVAKz-00060r-IQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43865) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVAKw-0005zn-1P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVAKu-0002SK-UB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:10:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.105]:26673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RVAKu-0002Rf-Jc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:10:08 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,587,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="121248293" Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr (HELO pluto) ([80.67.176.83]) by mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 29 Nov 2011 00:10:06 +0100 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 9 Frimaire an 220 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: <87r50ranub.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:23:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.105 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:12939 Archived-At: Andy Wingo skribis: > On Sun 27 Nov 2011 22:25, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > >> The problem is that this measurement doesn=E2=80=99t allow us to differe= ntiate >> between a growing heap with objects that may be freed as a result of >> running the GC, and a growing heap just because the application needs >> more malloc=E2=80=99d objects. > > This is true, but typically the heap stabilizes at some point. Ooh, re-reading your previous message, I now see what you mean, and it makes sense to me. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.