[racket-dev] SGC as default

What about ./configure --enable-racket=`which racket` ?
Already needed and used for cross-compilation.

Tobias


On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:00:21 +0200, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>  
wrote:

> I'm not sure how difficult it will be. It's tedious enough that the
> last time I thought about it, I just left a note next to
> "no-cgc-needed" in "racket/src/racket/Makefile.in", but maybe it's
> worth pursuing now.
>
> At Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:39:55 -0700, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> How difficult would it be to allow the bootstrap process to use a
>> preexisting Racket installation? This would alleviate some of the
>> performance loss, for example in rebuilds by developers or in continuous
>> integration.
>>
>> Sam
>> On Aug 11, 2014 11:16 PM, "Matthew Flatt" <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > I've changed the Racket CGC implementation --- which is mostly used
>> > only to build the normal Racket variant --- to use SGC by default,
>> > instead of the Boehm GC. The intent of the switch is to make the more
>> > portable GC the default.
>> >
>> > If you have an existing build in a repo checkout, then `make` is  
>> likely
>> > to fail, because the makefile dependencies are not precise enough to
>> > deal with the switch. You can discard your old build directory, or it
>> > might work to simply delete
>> >
>> >   <builddir>/racket/libmzgc.a
>> >
>> > If you're using CGC and want to continue using the Boehm GC, then
>> > provide `--disable-sgc` to `configure`. I've tuned SGC to bring its
>> > performance closer to the Boehm GC, but it's still slower.
>> >
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