From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: out-of-control GC Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:13:04 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87zi9yh68v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87zia28phj.fsf@web.de> <87shfuqojf.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505322840 14019 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2017 17:14:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:14:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 19:13:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsBEY-0003Xj-FR for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:13:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsBEf-0008WJ-Ur for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:14:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsBE2-0008Jv-N6 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:13:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsBDy-0002Zr-J2 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:13:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46763 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsBDy-0002Y6-Bv for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:13:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsBDl-0002EW-G4 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:13:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw Cancel-Lock: sha1:ahlxbbUjKBKsgd7A6of4HHoTy+A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:14133 Archived-At: Marko Rauhamaa writes: > Linas Vepstas : > >> The overall message seems to be that gc either runs too often, or not >> often enough. Some sort of better planning is needed. >> >> I'm motivated to explore this, as it actually impacts my work. > > Absolutely, although as an application programmer you should be able > to trust that GC just works. s/although/because/ -- David Kastrup