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From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: "Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GC thread performance
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 23:15:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1y3jw1t.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <074D691D-5DDB-4143-A3A3-A921CA56A650@telia.com>

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Hans Åberg <haberg-1@telia.com> writes:

> I see the the expected behavior when turing off the GC altogether,
> using malloc and free without cleanup: I third of the time on one
> thread, decreasing up to hardware concurrency.

I also saw that - I think we tracked it down to the GC heuristics
miscalculating when to run and running either too often or too seldomly.

I think we didn't get to actually fixing the underlying issue, though we
found that it should be possible.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-27 22:40 GC thread performance Hans Åberg
2017-11-27 23:05 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2017-11-27 23:13   ` Hans Åberg
2017-11-27 23:23     ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-11-27 23:44       ` Hans Åberg
2017-12-01 19:49         ` Linas Vepstas
2017-12-01 23:23           ` Hans Åberg
2017-12-02  8:50           ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-12-02 14:20             ` Hans Åberg
2017-12-03 22:15               ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2017-12-04  9:38                 ` Hans Åberg
2017-12-02 14:30             ` Chris Vine

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