> On Sep 29, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Paulo H. Taka Torrens <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Well, this probably could be turned on/off using a environment variable 
> (something like OBJC_CYCLE_GC)... but the point is that the overhead 
> shouldn't be that big; Inferno's algorithm was projected to do really small 
> steps each time, so that it wouldn't have to suddenly stop-the-world as most 
> GCs.

Which is cool; but it’s still going to lower overall performance by some 
amount. (Back in the day, the rule of thumb was that any garbage collector 
would add at least ~10% overhead to the CPU time taken by a typical program.)

> I'm still testing the runtime overhead on GNUStep, but I believe that the 
> overhead will be really small. I would probably be able to test the same 
> thing for Apple's as well (if I manage to build it from source…).

That would be cool!

—Jens


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