Re: GC thread performance

[Hans Åberg]

> On 28 Nov 2017, at 00:23, Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hans Åberg <address@hidden>:
>> I saw overhead also for the small allocations, 20-30% maybe. This is
>> in a program that makes a lot of allocations relative other
>> computations. So that made me wonder about Guile.
> 
> I don't have an answer to your question although I would imagine GC
> cannot be effectively scaled across multiple threads.

Or perhaps special implementation methods are required.

> I generally steer clear of threads and stick to multiple processes where
> parallelism is needed.

Indeed, that was I did: just one crucial point.