Re: garbage collection slowdown

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi Han-Wen,

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> after a long hiatus I have started getting involved with LilyPond
> again, and one of the things I'd like to do is get LilyPond off GUILE
> 1.8.

That’s great! Thank you very much!

> Unfortunately, it looks like the adoption of the BDW GC library caused
> a ~6x slowdown, causing an overall end-to-end slowdown of 50%.

This might be the read-function which is slower in 2.2. You might want
to try to go directly to Guile 3, in which the read function should be
on par with the read in 1.8.

Best wishes,
Arne
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