"Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> > > We discussed these changes but nobody (including me) was 
> > > able to recreate the improvement you reported.
Ian tried out on several *nix machines, I tried on ARM and my P3 RH
machine, John tried on his Macs and Andreas on W32. Nobody reported any
benefits and I think in a couple of case we saw falls in performance.
None of which surprised me because optmising general code for very
specific machines nearly always does that.

> > Did the root-table-overflow patch go in? (That one was where if the
> > root table was about to overflow, immediately microGC, then tenure.)
> 
> Not sure - Tim?
Andreas's version of something like this is in the latest VM package.

tim
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