From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-05-19T17:30:42+09:00
Subject: Re: GC heap allocation in 1.9

Hi,

In message "Re: GC heap allocation in 1.9"
    on Mon, 19 May 2008 17:19:20 +0900, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@m4x.org> writes:

|Matz, did you make any real measurement of the "heap free" gain that the
|2K patch allows?

"real measurement", no.  But it worked fine on my artificial
benchmarks.

|Do you have any comment ? Would you consider including a fixed-heap
|approach -- in which case I would happily port my implementation on
|1.9's gc.c for you to evaluate.

I am very interested in any improvement on Ruby's GC.  I'd happy to
see the patch.  If you have benchmarks to measure improvement from
your patch, I'd like to see them too.

							matz.