From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-08T03:47:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

Hongli Lai wrote:
> But this will make each VALUE object at least 4 
> bytes bigger (on x86). Is this increase in memory usage acceptable for 
> 8-10% performance gain?

And 4 extra bytes per object will use more cache, so it's not clear 
you'd get all of that 8-10%.

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