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Re: Faster compilation speed
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dberlin at dberlin dot org, torvalds at transmeta dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kevin at atkinson dot dhs dot org
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:35:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Faster compilation speed
If garbage collection is taking a significant amount of time (is this really
the case), then concentrating on speeding it up may make sense, but I am
quite dubious that reference counting would speed things up (it very rarely
does, speaking of long experience in implementation of garbage collected
languages, because the distributed overhead is high -- one of the interesting
things about reference counting is that, since it distributes the overhead,
it then becomes very difficult to accurately measure the overhead.