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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ruby: enable garbage collection
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 07:49:12 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2c7t55j.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210517193915.1220114-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Ruby is a gc language, we shouldn't be doing workaround to free memory when Ruby is perfectly
> capable of doing so.
>
> The problem is that talloc wants to be smart, and Ruby and talloc both fight to free memory. We can
> let Ruby win by stealing all the objects from talloc control.
>
> Thanks to the previous cleanup patches it's now possible to easily do this.
>
> In order to test this series I've used the following script:

I still haven't had a chance to look at the series, but how about making
this script either a test or a performance-test, as appropriate?

d

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-22 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 19:39 [PATCH 0/2] ruby: enable garbage collection Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] ruby: create an actual wrapper struct Felipe Contreras
2021-07-18 22:58   ` David Bremner
2021-05-17 19:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] ruby: enable garbage collection using talloc Felipe Contreras
2021-06-11  0:46   ` David Bremner
2021-06-11  8:54     ` David Bremner
2021-06-26 19:07       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 19:54         ` David Bremner
2021-06-26 20:05           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 18:56     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 19:56       ` David Bremner
2021-05-22 10:49 ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-05-28  3:10   ` [PATCH 0/2] ruby: enable garbage collection Felipe Contreras
2021-06-26 20:07 ` [PATCH] perf-test: add ruby test Felipe Contreras
2021-07-18 22:54   ` David Bremner

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