On 12/09/11 22:04, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
Okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to rip out the ms2 GC core, rip out the command-line --gc option, and flatten the GC API calls down in a branch. That way we can see if there really is any kind of performance gains to be had and if so, how much. If we like what we see, we'll set up the necessary configure-time architecture to make the inf GC a selectable option at configure time.
Thinking more about it, inf GC will only work as a runtime option for programs that don't consume too much memory. Compiling parrot or Rakudo with inf GC only will certainly fail. But it should be possible to get similar behavior to inf GC by tuning the GC memory thresholds. So ignore my concerns about inf GC.
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