Re: [Chicken-users] 4.6.1 performance boost

[Jim Ursetto]

Felix,
Which commit is this in?  I would like to try "before" and "after"
tests to confirm.
Jim

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:50, Felix
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Chicken-users] 4.6.1 performance boost
> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:17:20 -0400
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I don't know what kind of magic Felix is doing, but for a very quick,
>> simple and limited benchmark I can see a BIG performance improvement
>> when comparing 4.5.0 and 4.6.1.
>>
>
> There has been an improvement to the garbage collector, which is likely
> to have caused this: the function that marks each live value performs
> a test for immediate data (which doesn't have to be marked). This
> test has been manually inlined and that improves GC speed considerably
> under heavy load. So, no magic involved...
>
>
> cheers,
> felix
>
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