Re: GC improvements

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> address@hidden (Han-Wen Nienhuys) writes:
>
>
> > I think that GUILE creates garbage as a side effect of evaluating
> > code. If think that nothing needs to be swept, try disabling GC during
> > startup, and see how well it performs memory-wise.
>
>
> I did try commenting out all calls to `scm_i_gc ()' and running my
> workload again.  Actually, it doesn't make a big difference: a lot of
> time is still spent in `scm_i_sweep_card ()', called from
> `scm_i_sweep_some_cards ()' and friends.

the easiest way is to modify

  scm_gc_for_newcell()


so it directly passes to the

  scm_i_get_new_heap_segment (freelist, abort_on_error);

case

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