Re: Problems with GC_size_map

Hi,

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll@...> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Bruce Hoult <bruce@...> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
>> <juanjose.garciaripoll@...> wrote:
>> > In general I am worried that the garbage collector is performing rather
>> bad
>> > for a simple problem in which one builds and quickly discarding bignums
>> --
>> > pointerless memory, by the way --. Profiling shows that 80% of the time
>> is
>> > spent in the mark phase.
>>
>> You are not allocating the bodies of the bignums using GC_malloc_atomic()?
>>
>
> Of course I am. The whole bignum is a huge chunk of atomic memory, including
> a few words for the structure of the datatype and the rest full of bits that
> represent the bignum, using GMP. Other people have verified this behavior,
> not only in OS X but also in Linux. I have tried both with and without
> incremental garbage collection.

If you have a simple test case, I’d be happy to adapt it and test it on
Guile since have a similar setup, using GMP as well.

Thanks,
Ludo’.