Re: Slowdown in switch to card-based collector?

[Michael Livshin]

Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:

> I statically linked the application against
> 
> 1. libguile from 2000-08-13 (old GC)
> 2. libguile from 2000-10-26 (new GC + GOOPS builtin)
> 
> (Yes, I know I should have linked against libraries directly on either
> side of the GC change.  Practical considerations made me do otherwise.
> Besides, to get a first warning, it gives more information to cover
> the entire period---there could be a problem in some later change as
> well.)

hmmm, thought of something else: I assume your application makes
extensive use of GOOPS.  then it could just be that the heap is much
larger with the newer Guile -- structs became twice fatter not very
long ago.

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