Re: [Chicken-users] static or dynamic nursery

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 11:30:39PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> One can skip the nursery sampling and just chose 64 or 128k
> (which seems to be the optimum for current machines). It's not crucial,
> but may give slightly better performance.
> 
> Building chicken from sources is still the recommended method - to use
> chicken effectively, one has to work on that level anyway, IMHO.
> That doesn't mean binary releases aren't useful, of course. Especially
> bootstrapping issues can be handled better that way.

I'm not very familiar with Chicken's sources, but would it be possible
to dynamically set the nursery size based on an environment variable?
This would solve binary distribution problems.

Peter
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