Re: [Gcl-devel] efficiency of package symbol tables

[Bruno Haible]

Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  Found a spare moment to confirm this.  It appears that
> Peter is right, and that our package hashing is OK.  This is made
> clearer by the new time macro I've put in.  Here are my timings

So the issue appears to be a pure GC problem: The GC time for
(fill-symtab 10000) increases by a factor of 4. Maybe it's normal
(because the contents of initial memory image is frozen and doesn't
cost anything during GC?), or maybe the default GC thresholds are not
appropriate?

Bruno