From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...>
Date: 2002-12-30T21:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [1.8] speed

> Y> I want to profile the code.  Is your test suite the one bundled with
> Y> testunit? 
> 
>  yes. I've seen this big slowdown only with bz2 : libbzip2 internally use
>  big buffers to decompress the data, with bz2 these buffers are managed by
>  ruby (ruby_xmalloc). This means that each time I call ::new, the GC is
>  called. 
> 
>  This is only how I can explain this slowdown with bz2

Remember the "speed differences" I posted a while ago?
Same issue.

gc_sweep() got called for each allocation of 100kB, meaning it was ran
about 100 times more often for 1.7.3 than for 1.6.8. If I change the
allocation size to 100 bytes (instead of 100 kB) 1.7.3 speeds up to match
1.6.8

Suggestion to fix: the GC should not run, unless a threshold on the amount
of allocations is crossed. (But my theory on gc is weak, so I am probably
missing some things here.)

Bye,
Kero.

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