From: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
To: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the future of Guile
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:34:21 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0712041932480.28870@notam02.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712041854430.17042@ttleush>
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>
> "Marco Maggi":
> >
> > 4. If a garbage collector allows to remove the need for
> > "scm_remember_upto_here" it must be adopted even if it
> > makes Guile slower and it raises memory usage a bit (or
> > more than a bit).
>
> If we replace "should" with "must", I agree.
>
> Regarding the HBGC, a few nonscientific tests earlier this year
> showed that HBGC had _much_ lower latency than Guile's garbage
> collector.
>
> I am planning to measure the difference in latency properly
> quite soon, and if what I suspect is correct, that the HBGC
> has significant lower latency, this is another "should"
> for replacing the old one, even if the new one is a little
> bit slower and use a little bit more memory.
>
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. :-) )
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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 [this message]
2007-12-04 20:06 ` Roland Orre
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
[not found] <34.F3.20110.D6985574@avas19>
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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