Re: GUILE 2/3 and string encoding cost

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:09 PM Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Both your hunches were correct:
>
> the code below works, but it makes the GC time go from 2s to 5s.

Probably a lot of overhead would go away if we could properly pair up
GC_FREE with GC_MALLOC from libgc, but I can't get this to pass
GUILE's init phase.

I have some other ideas: I think we could instead define a
ly::vector<> that uses a custom allocator. The smob classes could then
define their own operator new, that uses scm_gc_malloc.

It willl have to wait for next week though.

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