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Re: "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conse
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Christopher Dimech |
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Re: "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" - sweep_conses performance improved by 50%? |
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Sat, 29 Oct 2022 07:19:01 +0200 |
> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 5:07 PM
> From: "Stefan Kangas" <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> To: "Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Cc: tyler@tdodge.consulting
> Subject: "Significant Garbage Collection Improvement For Emacs" -
> sweep_conses performance improved by 50%?
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> In this blog post
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> https://tdodge.consulting/blog/living-the-emacs-garbage-collection-dream
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> the author asserts that a one-line patch "reduces the total wall clock
> duration for sweep conses execution by approximately 50%", at least in
> one benchmark. There are some caveats; read the blog post for the
> full story.
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> The patch can be found here:
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> https://github.com/tyler-dodge/emacs/commit/36d2a8d5a4f741ae99540e139fff2621bbacfbaa
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> Is this a change we could/should realistically make in Emacs?
I give my approval for it.