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From: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
To: Shivkumar Chandrasekaran <shiv@ece.ucsb.edu>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Slow GC problem
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:10:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030410230929.04b20cf8@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6FA5A4AF-6B9A-11D7-B23F-000393942C76@ece.ucsb.edu>


>What if I modified bigarray_stubs.c to use the malloc and free calls of 
>the Boehm gc (6.1-4) garbage collector? My reasoning is that malloc is 
>performing poorly due to fragmentation, and switching to a gc'd version 
>might help out.
>Before I try this I would like some feedback from the list on the 
>soundness of this idea.

I don't mean to be a nag, but did you profile your application yet?  A very 
wise programmer once said, "Assume Nothing".

Chris


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-11  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-04 19:40 Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-04-03 21:07 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-04-07 17:53 ` Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-04-07 19:08   ` Chris Hecker
2003-04-08  7:15     ` David Monniaux
2003-04-08 10:28   ` Damien Doligez
2003-04-08 23:03     ` Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-04-08 10:23 ` Damien Doligez
2003-04-10 21:21   ` Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-04-10 21:51     ` Brian Hurt
2003-04-11  7:10     ` Chris Hecker [this message]
2003-04-11  7:58       ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-04-11 16:35         ` Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-04-14 16:37 Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2003-10-23  8:17 Chris Hecker

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