Re: indirect threading for bytecode interpreter

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've profiled (using oprofile) Emacs running this a few times; typical
> results show mark_object at 10-12% of runtime.  It is probably pretty
> easy to reproduce this with a variety of elisp programs.

So no matter how hard we try, we won't gain more than about 10% speed-up
trying to optimize the GC.  Doesn't sound like a great motivator.


        Stefan