Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack

Martin> The place where the Boehm gc shines performance wise is not during gc Martin> at all, but in the fact that gcpros can be dispensed with entirely Martin> while the mutator runs. Normally the advantage of mark&sweep over Martin> reference counting is: not slowing down the mutator. Erh, yeah, well, at the cost of introducing an entire additional phase to the execution. I'm sure GCPRO is not a very relevant factor during runtime. Garbage collection is. Adding a bunch of GCPRO's is not going to make much of a difference to execution time. That difference should be more than offset by the speed gain from a decent collector. You can't get much slower than the one in Emacs. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla