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Re: garbage collection slowdown
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: garbage collection slowdown |
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Wed, 29 Jan 2020 08:17:11 +0100 |
(please CC replies directly to me; I am not on the guile-devel list.)
Arne mentioned
>This might be the read-function which is slower in 2.2. You might want
>to try to go directly to Guile 3, in which the read function should be
>on par with the read in 1.8.
I'd rather avoid making a jump to GUILE 3, as it's not in distributionsn yet.
Just to be extra clear: if I instrument Lily with
(begin
(display "gc time taken: ")
(display (* 1.0 (/ (cdr (assoc 'gc-time-taken (gc-stats)))
internal-time-units-per-second)))
(display "\n")))
this number increases from 0.3 to 1.7. Parsing and compiling the .scm
files in our distribution has a GC overhead of 0.3 by itself on GUILE
2.2
The release notes for 2.0 say that
"Switch to the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector .. It also
improves performance."
I am curious about the numbers that support this; can somebody point
me to them? From where I stand, it looks like a huge performance
regression.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:41 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> after a long hiatus I have started getting involved with LilyPond
> again, and one of the things I'd like to do is get LilyPond off GUILE
> 1.8. Experiments suggest that starting from GUILE 2.2, the execution
> performance is on par with 1.8. There are 2 open issues: caching byte
> compiled files (which I haven't looked into yet), and GC.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like the adoption of the BDW GC library caused
> a ~6x slowdown, causing an overall end-to-end slowdown of 50%.
>
> I was wondering if you folks would have tips to further tune GC for
> wall-time speed, and if there additional diagnostics to see if we're
> doing something extraordinarily silly.
>
> I already found the GC_free_space_divisor, but I already tuned to its
> fastest value, 1.
>
> --
> Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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