Hans Åberg <haber...@telia.com>: > I saw overhead also for the small allocations, 20-30% maybe. This is > in a program that makes a lot of allocations relative other > computations. So that made me wonder about Guile.
I don't have an answer to your question although I would imagine GC cannot be effectively scaled across multiple threads. I generally steer clear of threads and stick to multiple processes where parallelism is needed. Marko