This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Faster compilation speed [zone allocation]
Aldy Hernandez wrote:
"Per" == Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
This is just an idea, why doesn't someone hack the GC to never
collect, and then we can really find out how much is to be gained by a
refcounter, or no GC at all, etc.
Why go down this path, if we're not even sure it'll improve anything
(well, that much anyhow).
Aldy
But doesn't the GC scan run through all of the active chunks of memory
looking for pointers, causing whatever happens to be in the cache to be
shifted around?
It depends on how often GC runs, but I'd think that the cache would be
messed up each time it runs. I don't know how badly it would degrade
the caching though.