Howdy! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Tue 29 Nov 2011 14:18, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis: >> >>> On Tue 29 Nov 2011 12:06, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> >>>> Could you run the stuff under gc-benchmarks/ with and without the >>>> heuristic, as in [0]? >>>> >>>> [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/7803 >> >> IIRC the “Guile” lines below correspond to whatever guile is in $PATH. >> Do you know what that is in your case? > > I fixed the environment to make it so that it was something post-2.0.3, > but before these heuristics. OK. >> The funny thing is that the initial FSD (which is what is shown here) >> has an impact, although one might think the initial value doesn’t matter >> much since adjust_gc_something changes it anyway. > > The FSD set in the env. var is the minimum FSD, so it does matter. Oh, right. >> The other interesting thing is that it seems to be noticeably better, >> even on pure Scheme code–i.e., code that only does GC_malloc, not >> malloc. > > It could be that having a better baseline memory usage affects the > specific benchmarks being run. Dunno tho. Growing the image size can > also happen due to GC allocations though, so perhaps increasing > allocation in those times does also make sense. Food for thought. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.
