From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mikael Djurfeldt Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: substantial performance loss when running long-lived or computationally intensive programs Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:36:47 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030505.223626.84190828.wells@email.mot.com> <16066.9478.131532.331041@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052923787 23725 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 14:49:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 16:49:40 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FxXp-00063j-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 16:47:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FxUr-0006EA-05 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FxTG-0005BJ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FxQR-0004FI-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from kvast.blakulla.net ([213.212.20.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FxOB-0002oY-00; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from dyna224-227.nada.kth.se ([130.237.224.227] helo=witch ident=mail) by kvast.blakulla.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19FxO1-00071i-00; Wed, 14 May 2003 16:37:41 +0200 Original-Received: from mdj by witch with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FxN9-0001B6-00; Wed, 14 May 2003 16:36:47 +0200 Original-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <16066.9478.131532.331041@localhost.localdomain> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Wed, 14 May 2003 13:14:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Original-cc: michaelawells@motorola.com Original-cc: djurfeldt@nada.kth.se Original-cc: bug-guile@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2358 gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:792 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2358 Han-Wen Nienhuys writes: > One thing that does nag me, is code in srcprop.c that manipulates > scm_mallocated directly and doesn't call > scm_gc_register_collectable_memory(). Is there a good reason for this? Nope. Only that scm_gc_register_collectable_memory() didn't exist when srcprop.c was written in 1996. In fact, at that time, direct manipulation was probably the only possibility. Please feel free to change this. M _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel