From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T10:35:48+09:00
Subject: Re: question on bottleneck of ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: question on bottleneck of ruby"
    on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:18:33 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> writes:

|> Garbage collection and poor memory usage, on the other hand, are problems
|> that can and should be solved.
|
|Very true, and I hope these are solved some time in future 1.9.1 
|releases, because I worry that with YARV running faster and generating 
|garbage faster, the GC bottlenecks are going to become more pronounced.

Although I have my own opinion, first, can you elaborate your opinion
on GC problems and possible solutions?

Note that we already implemented generational GC, which happened to
have no positive effect on performance due to write barrier cost.

							matz.