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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: entering and leaving guile mode, and GC stack protection
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:06:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3prb0lm9y.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0B8EF94-4864-40B2-A773-DA13ADACF56F@raeburn.org> (Ken Raeburn's message of "Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:30:53 -0400")

Hi Ken,

On Thu 06 Aug 2009 18:30, Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:06, I wrote:
>> (3) My four-year-old comments on scm_enter/leave_guile, recorded in
>> threads.c around line 300, still stand....  Those functions really
>> ought to go away.  At least they're confined to one file, now.  Some
>> of it looks a little messy, but I can probably get rid of some of  the
>> uses....
>
> I've made a bit of progress on this.

The patches look good to me; my only wonder is what relation they have
to the BDW-GC branch Ludovic was working on. If BDW will land before
2.0, then perhaps all this mess can go away (wishful thinking);
otherwise we should apply it now (after the release). Ludovic? :)

Cheers,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-04  9:28 guile performance - Ackermann function: way slower than emacs, slower still if compiled Ken Raeburn
2009-08-04 13:52 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-08-04 15:56   ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-05  9:06 ` Andy Wingo
2009-08-05 14:06   ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-06  7:31     ` Ken Raeburn
2009-08-26 22:39       ` Neil Jerram
2009-08-06 16:30     ` entering and leaving guile mode, and GC stack protection (was Re: guile performance - Ackermann function: way slower than emacs, slower still if compiled) Ken Raeburn
2009-08-12 22:06       ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2009-08-14  7:58         ` entering and leaving guile mode, and GC stack protection Ludovic Courtès
2009-08-08 21:52   ` guile performance - Ackermann function: way slower than emacs, slower still if compiled Ludovic Courtès
2009-08-12 22:28     ` Andy Wingo
2009-08-05 10:42 ` Andy Wingo
2009-08-06 15:59   ` Andy Wingo
2009-08-07 17:27     ` Andy Wingo
2009-08-05 11:15 ` Andy Wingo

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