== Quote from Christian Kamm (kamm-incasoftw...@removethis.de)'s article > Iain Buclaw wrote: > > == Quote from Christian Kamm (kamm-incasoftw...@removethis.de)'s article > >> Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> > Will be making shared libraries default in GDC pretty soon now... > >> Did you adjust the GC to check the shared libraries' data sections for > >> references? When we looked at this for LDC that turned out to slow down > >> GC runs significantly. > >> I'm pretty sure bearophile benchmarked it at the time. > >> As far as I remember the main problem was that we were scanning all data > >> sections - even of plain C libraries. > >> Regards, > >> Christian > > > > When adding more ranges in the GC to check, slowdowns are inevitable. So > > far in my personal testing, the slowdowns seem pretty negligible in > > comparison (never more than 0.300 seconds, though that could be a sign > > that I'm not pushing it in the right way). > > > > To prevent the GC from scanning C libraries, I've added an extra check to > > only add ranges that have a D module inside them. > That sounds good. I was asking because I didn't see any code like this in > http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc - which repository is this in? > Christian
It's currently on my local workstation, all mashed together with the D2 beta merge. I have faith that my workstation won't crash and die in the meantime <touchwood> and will sift through it all (and break it down into sizeable commits) once I'm satisfied that there's nothing more I can do. Regards Iain