bug#39361: continuation and gc performance

Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Stefan Israelsson Tampe <[email protected]> skribis:

> That function marks the working stack no, what about stack segments in
> continuations will they be marked correctly as well?

Oh you’re right, from a quick look at continuations.c, a continuation’s
stack appears to be conservatively scanned (allocated with
‘scm_gc_malloc’).

My intuition is that it’s “good enough” in most cases, but could affect
GC performance a tiny bit in continuation-heavy code, such as Fibers.

Ludo’.
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