On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Joe Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised that racket3m uses page protection. Taking a hardware trap > can often be thousands of times slower than taking an inline conditional > branch.
My understanding is that 3m does this because it is doing exact garbage-collection on the C code rather than just on the Racket. I presume that it would be hard (and useful) engineering to make it GC more traditionally. Jay -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
