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From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
Cc: Hendrik Tews <H.Tews@cs.ru.nl>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] caml_oldify_local_roots takes 50% of the total runtime
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:01:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161802911.12050.5.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8560b80610251121x10c113faif3e8a50ef0a9415c@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:21 -0400, Markus Mottl wrote:

> It would be great if the GC could be improved in situations where
> there are many local roots.  This is a pretty common problem when
> interfacing non-trivial third party libraries, and the clumsy
> workarounds require writing somewhat error-prone code. 

Just curious .. but why is there *ever* any need for more than
one root? If you need to add a root, why not just add to
an already rooted data structure? Would that solve the problem?

-- 
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-25 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 15:49 Hendrik Tews
2006-10-25 18:21 ` [Caml-list] " Markus Mottl
2006-10-25 19:01   ` skaller [this message]
2006-10-26  9:50     ` Hendrik Tews
2006-10-26 13:48     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-10-27 11:36       ` Hendrik Tews
2006-10-27 13:17         ` Brian Hurt
2006-10-27 20:05           ` Robert Roessler
2006-10-27 21:16           ` Pierre Etchemaïté
2006-10-30  7:50           ` Hendrik Tews
2006-10-26  9:47   ` Hendrik Tews
2006-10-26 14:54     ` Markus Mottl
2006-12-15 10:56 ` Hendrik Tews

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