Re: [PATCH] Configure GMP to use GC allocation functions, remove bignum finalizers

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 29 Nov 2011 12:06, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Could you run the stuff under gc-benchmarks/ with and without the
> heuristic, as in [0]?
>
> [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/7803

Adding a FSD=2 entry:

   benchmark: `gc-benchmarks/gcbench.scm'
                          heap size (MiB)  execution time (s.)
   Guile                    53.17 (1.00x)      1.965 (1.00x)
   BDW-GC, FSD=2            55.76 (1.05x)      1.953 (0.99x) -
   BDW-GC, FSD=3            44.94 (0.85x)      2.017 (1.03x) ++
   BDW-GC, FSD=6            37.74 (0.71x)      2.361 (1.20x) ++++
   BDW-GC, FSD=9            37.77 (0.71x)      2.913 (1.48x) ++++
   BDW-GC, FSD=2 incr.      54.32 (1.02x)      2.049 (1.04x) 
   BDW-GC, FSD=3 incr.      51.21 (0.96x)      2.164 (1.10x) +
   BDW-GC, FSD=3 gene.      54.50 (1.02x)      2.131 (1.08x) 

   benchmark: `gc-benchmarks/string.scm'
                          heap size (MiB)  execution time (s.)
   Guile                   356.60 (1.00x)      0.564 (1.00x)
   BDW-GC, FSD=2           380.20 (1.07x)      0.498 (0.88x) -
   BDW-GC, FSD=3           265.62 (0.74x)      0.463 (0.82x) ++++
   BDW-GC, FSD=6           319.94 (0.90x)      0.485 (0.86x) ++
   BDW-GC, FSD=9           318.98 (0.89x)      0.489 (0.87x) ++
   BDW-GC, FSD=2 incr.     477.82 (1.34x)      0.624 (1.11x) -----
   BDW-GC, FSD=3 incr.     418.91 (1.17x)      0.643 (1.14x) ---
   BDW-GC, FSD=3 gene.     338.70 (0.95x)      0.615 (1.09x) +

Win!

Andy
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