Re: [Chicken-users] A more detailed plea for help with FFI...

[Tony Garnock-Jones]

Ed Watkeys wrote:
> Running the code below with the set-finalizer! call in 1) place and 2) 
> commented out resulted in a runtime delta of about eight seconds on my 
> 1.33 GHz PB G4 12" running OS X 10.3.6. That means that the overhead of 
> handling a finalizer call is about 80 microseconds, or about 0.00008 
> seconds. That's about 110,000 processor cycles. Wow.

Alternatively, it means that malloc() and free() are really slow. (Which 
hypothesis is supported by the fact that malloc() and free() are 
actually really slow :-) )

Tony