Re: [EXPERIMENT] Emacs with the SpiderMonkey garbage collector

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> A moving GC is not necessarily better.  It's a popular choice in
> languages with high allocation rates, because allocation is extremely
> efficient (just move the allocation pointer forward) and because
> a stop&copy of the youngest generation can usually recover a lot of
> garbage with fairly little effort (because often there are much fewer
> live objects in the young region than dead ones, so copying the live
> objects is cheaper than (mark&)sweeping the dead ones).
>
> But it's not like it doesn't have downsides.

... and then you stopped writing! Just when you were getting to the good part!