From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel 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) Message-ID: References: <20070603110930.M29119@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> <87zm3gq77r.fsf@laas.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180961175 6681 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2007 12:46:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bill Schottstaedt , guile-devel@gnu.org To: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 14:46:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HvBwk-0005hA-UY for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:46:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvBwk-0001yw-Gu for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvBw9-00013g-Pc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvBw8-000113-1q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvBw7-00010J-MR for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvBw7-0005gS-1d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:45:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-mx8.uio.no ([129.240.10.38]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HvBw4-00009L-7m; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:45:24 +0200 Original-Received: from bjo1-1x-dhcp290.studby.uio.no ([193.157.245.38]) by mail-mx8.uio.no with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HvBw3-0006Az-Ir; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:45:23 +0200 X-X-Sender: kjetil@ttleush In-Reply-To: X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.1, required=12.0, autolearn=disabled, AWL=0.054) X-UiO-Scanned: 3C79008C910FC1C73B894ED7AB506EFAFA3F50CB X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 193.157.245.38 spam_score: 1 maxlevel 200 minaction 1 bait 0 mail/h: 2 total 94 max/h 4 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:6629 Archived-At: 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. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel