[Squeak-VMdev] GC improvements

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Sat Apr 23 03:28:31 UTC 2005


I've a smalltalk version of the gnuifier that David P did.

On Apr 22, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> In message <426987D4.80302 at gmx.de>
>           Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>> I just verified it and like I suspected, the performance hit has
>>> absolutely nothing to do with the GC changes. We lost a decent  
>>> amount of
>>> speed somewhere - anyone having ideas?
>>
>> All right, found it. The gnuifier still matched against "int
>> interpret()" where it has to match against "sqInt interpret()" now.  
>> All
>> of you guys using awk-style gnuification might want to check that it's
>> doing the right thing.
>>
> Excellent news for those platforms using gnuifier. It's constantly  
> amazing how
> delicate performance is.
>
> Now if only I can get my timing subsystem working properly so I can  
> find out
> where the issue is on my machine. :-(
>
>
> tim
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> "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my parent process. Prepare to  
> vi!"
>
>
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