[plt-scheme] 3m defaults to --enable-account

On Jan 16, Jim Blandy wrote:
> 
> Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> writes:
> > If you need the old 3m collector for some reason, configure with
> > --enable-compact. As the name of this flag suggests, the old 3m
> > collector tends to keep a smaller memory footprint than the
> > now-default collector, but the difference between the two
> > collectors is much less significant than the difference between 3m
> > "precise" collection and conservative collection. The old
> > collector does not support memory accounting.
> 
> I'm curious why you folks switched from conservative to precise GC.
> (Not questioning the decision at all, just wondering.)  Do you have
> a writeup somewhere about the motivation?  Have you measured the
> performance impact?

It's only the default for the precise collector version (3m) that
changed -- if you don't use 3m, then nothing changed.

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