[racket-dev] gc vs assignment

My experience is that allocation is the primary thing to look for to
improve performance.

Robby

On Tuesday, August 24, 2010, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Catching up with some mail.
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> Neil wrote:
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>> Avoiding allocation reduces GC collects, which reduces stutters and hitches.
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> My (possibly old) understanding of GC and mutation tell me that this is one of those prejudices that programmers should get rid of. Every mutation goes across an access barrier in a GC like ours and can thus be much more expensive than a lightweight allocation. This was certainly true for early generational collectors. I do know that the hordes of Java programmers who invaded GCLand forced GC builders to make C/C++-like programs in Java work reasonably fast with collectors and so collectors changed.
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> Matthew, do you know what it's really like for us?
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