Re: CPU and GC cost of bignums

[Hans Åberg]

> On 5 Feb 2020, at 17:29, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hey ho!
> 
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
>> … but has the disadvantage that it doesn’t work: ‘numbers.test’ fails
>> badly on bignums.
> 
> I think with the excitement I no longer knew what I was saying.  So,
> here’s a revised patch that actually preserves memory management (as in:
> ‘mpz_t’ are eventually freed), while getting rid of finalizers.

When I tested the Boehm GC in a C++ program, the finalizers did not seem to 
make much difference. However, if the program is threaded, it puts locks around 
all GC allocations, which I think may be time consuming. So maybe you should 
try letting GMP use ordinary malloc, and GC allocations only for the SCM values 
creating them, deleting when finalized.