[ruby-core:41940] Re: Proposal: Bitmap Marking GC

2012/1/6 Hiroshi Shirosaki <[e-mail]>:
>> I created Bitmap Marking GC for Ruby2.0.
>>
>> Source code: https://github.com/authorNari/ruby/tree/bitmap_marking
>> Patch: https://github.com/authorNari/patch_bag/blob/master/ruby/gc_bitmap_using_alignment_r33786.patch
>>
>
> I've tried benchmark against trunk@34217 on Windows XP with mingw32
> gcc version 4.5.2 (tdm-1).
> I used __mingw_aligned_malloc() cause of build error with
> _aligned_[malloc|free].
> I also found _aligned_malloc() is usable if #define __MSVCRT_VERSION__ 0x0700.
>

Thank you! I commit this patch to my repository of github.
https://gist.github.com/1569277#file_mingw_aligned_malloc.patch
https://github.com/authorNari/ruby/commit/5b0b56c7e60b532ed732fa39ae682a8ed0396dfa

> Result of make benchmark OPTS="-r 5".
> https://gist.github.com/1569277
>
> I skipped vm_thread_mutex2 and vm_thread_pass_flood cause of errors.
> Some benchmarks are not a little slower on my box. Some benchmarks are
> faster. Win7 might have different results.

Thanks for your help :)

> Here is _aligned_[malloc|free] timing result.
> https://gist.github.com/1569002
>
> It's based on Jon Forums's work.
> https://github.com/jonforums/tma
>
> _aligned_[malloc|free] looks slower than plain malloc/free.

It would not be a big problem because my patch don't call
_aligned_malloc/free frequently.


Thanks.
-- 
Narihiro Nakamura (nari)