Re: GUILE 2/3 and string encoding cost

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> >> On a 64bit application, this would be somewhat more tenable, but we'd
> >> need to override operator new for smobs.
> >>
> >> Or do we?  Maybe the heap is collected by default, and we need to switch
> >> that off?
> >>
> >>
> > What do you mean with "heap is collected"?
>
> "Collected" is probably the wrong expression.  Sweeped and marked.  The
> proposed behavior by Guile developers is not to bother with individual
> mark hooks and just let the whole heap be marked and sweeped.
>

Did we ever try this and publish results?


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