Hi Linas,


Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> writes:

> To make this conversation less crazy, and more down-to-earth, here is a
> demo that seems to spend most of its time in GC. Hard for me to to say that
> this is "wrong", right now, but it illustrates the scandalous nature of the
> problem.

Do you have many string operations in your code?

If I replace

    (cons (format #f "~A" cnt) lis)

with

    (cons cnt lis)

GC is down to ~20% (from around 130%).

Best wishes,
Arne
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