From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-09-22T16:26:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:5060] Re: GC patch

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:5058] Re: GC patch"
    on 00/09/22, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@cam.org> writes:

|I wrote a patch to Ruby 1.6.0pre2's gc.c that makes gc frequency inversely
|proportional to the number of currently allocated objects, so that % of
|time spent on GC remains about the same. With Aleksi's program (see
|message #4407) I get the following results. My version of the GC uses
|about 20% more RAM, but one can fumble with the linear equations for more
|conservative RAM usage if wanted.

Thank you for the proposal.  Could you supply us unified diff, or at
worst context diff, so that we can confirm the fix before applying it?

							matz.