From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-11-03T16:46:39+09:00
Subject: Re: hacking on the "heap" implementation in gc.c

Hi,

In message "Re: hacking on the "heap" implementation in gc.c"
    on Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:54:50 +0900, Lloyd Hilaiel <lloyd@hilaiel.com> writes:

|> Pretty interesting idea, but we don't want to slow down Ruby by factor
|> of two.  I got the basic idea, I will play with 1.9 GC later.

|I think my poor site organization may have been confusing.  My proof  
|of concept
|is only a couple percent slower and reduces max heap size by about  
|25% while
|doubling reclamation.  Have a look at the updated page:
|http://lloydforge.org/projects/ruby
|I think a little more work could get back the performance loss.

Great.  I am not going to merge the patch to 1.8 soon, because 1.8 is
supposed to be stable.  But I'd love to experiment it on 1.9 if I
could manage time.  Can you give us your test programs as well?

							matz.