From: Roland Orre <roland.orre@neurologic.se>
To: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the future of Guile
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:06:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196798803.5494.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0712041932480.28870@notam02.uio.no>
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 19:34 +0100, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
...
> Oh, and another thing. My tests (available in the guile-devel archives)
> also showed that the HBGC version usually use a bit less memory
> than Guile's old garbage collector. (Yet another "should"
> for replacing. :-) )
I don't have much experience with different GC algorithms, but
as I understand the HBGC is not intended for background GC.
If the GC should be replaced I would consider it wise to
replace it with an algorithm than can be run in a thread.
This I consider strongly motivated by the fact that most new
machines today are multi core. An efficient way to decrease the
latency of the GC is to simply run it in background.
Regarding GC I also think it is could be useful to have a GC that
can compact the memory and of course give allocated memory back to
the OS when no longer needed. OK, a compacting GC may make it
hard to write applications, so don't take this point too
seriously...
/Roland
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[not found] <cmu-lmtpd-7104-1196779864-1@mail-imap2.uio.no>
2007-12-04 18:08 ` the future of Guile Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-12-04 18:34 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-12-04 20:06 ` Roland Orre [this message]
2007-12-04 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-12-04 22:30 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
[not found] <cmu-lmtpd-4316-1197047238-3@mail-imap2.uio.no>
2007-12-07 17:42 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2007-12-07 6:28 Marco Maggi
[not found] <cmu-lmtpd-27643-1196871540-1@mail-imap2.uio.no>
2007-12-06 14:52 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-05 22:32 Marco Maggi
2007-12-05 22:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-12-05 21:02 Marco Maggi
2007-12-05 15:40 Mike Gran
2007-12-05 16:05 ` Julian Graham
2007-12-05 16:18 ` Daniel Ridge
2007-12-05 20:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-12-05 9:01 Marco Maggi
2007-12-05 14:19 ` Roland Orre
2007-12-05 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2007-12-04 19:54 ` the future of guile Daniel Llorens del Río
[not found] <F8.1B.18780.B4965574@avas11>
2007-12-04 15:55 ` Daniel Llorens del Río
2007-12-04 6:50 the future of Guile Marco Maggi
2007-12-04 8:48 ` Stephen Compall
2007-12-04 12:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-12-04 14:50 ` Bill Schottstaedt
2007-12-04 15:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-12-04 23:00 ` Neil Jerram
2007-12-05 23:11 ` Andy Wingo
2007-12-06 19:48 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
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