>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber
<sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>>>> "Hamish" == Hamish Macdonald
<hamishm(a)lucent.com> writes:
Hamish> Garbage collections are taking 11 seconds. This seems excessive.
Michael> I also complained about this a while ago, but Martin assured me it was
Michael> normal. Let me reiterate that it isn't.
I don't remember saying such a thing. GC should not take 11 seconds,
on machines where memory doesn't thrash, i.e. with sufficient real memory.
If this happens on "normal" machines, we should figure out why and fix
it.
Michael> On the positive side, just yesterday I signed up a pretty smart
Michael> Master's candidate to do this thesis on replacing the XEmacs GC.
It's
Michael> scheduled to be finished by the end of the year.
That's great news.