Re: Re: A non-sucking garbage collector

From: "Greg Ewing"

> Mark Hahn <[email protected]>:
>
> > The malloc call is extremely fast also.  It just keeps one free pointer
in a
> > big pre-malloc'd arena and marches through giving out memory chunks of
any
> > size without keeping track of anything.
>
> Have you thought about how cache-unfriendly that behaviour
> is going to be?

Yes, I'm aware of it.  The GC research I've done doesn't raise this as an
issue though.  I suspect (or at least hope) other performance issues
outweigh this one.

The only serious negative about copying I've seen is memory consumption
which the general consensus is that is raises the overhead from %50 to %100
for a total increase of %33.

The reason I like it is the ease of C coding and the way it works with my
locking to allow continuous operation.  To me that is worth the extra memory
usage.