== Quote from Iain Buclaw (ibuc...@ubuntu.com)'s article > == 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
Module/Routine is now up here: https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/src/a402fef51a6a/d/druntime/rt/gccmemory.d
