From: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
To: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
Cc: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Experience with guile + Boehm GC in SND (Re: New versions of rt-compiler.scm, rt-examples.scm and rt.tex
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:45:22 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706041441000.9033@ttleush> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706041353330.9033@ttleush>
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>> The main thing that needs to be done before we can consider this
>> solution now is to compare both memory usage _and_ execution time of the
>> two Guiles.
>
> Yes, but for some kinds of software, like programs with custom gui's, sound
> processing programs, interactive graphical programs, interactivety is
> exclusively more important than those two. I consider the freeze that the
> guile's built-in gc cause to be its biggest problem.
>
Actually, I haven't used guile for other interactive stuff than snd. And
snd is huge. It could be that the boehm gc works a lot lot better for
really large programs than guile's gc. I'll try to run the gc benchmark
program inside snd (with lots of scheme files loaded), it might give some
interesting results.
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[not found] ` <20070603110930.M29119@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
2007-06-03 14:57 ` Experience with guile + Boehm GC in SND (Re: New versions of rt-compiler.scm, rt-examples.scm and rt.tex Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
2007-06-03 16:33 ` Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
2007-06-03 20:07 ` Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
2007-06-04 11:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-06-04 12:08 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-06-04 12:45 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen [this message]
2007-06-04 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-06-04 16:11 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-06-04 16:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-06-04 18:00 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-06-04 18:14 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-06-05 7:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
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