GC performance - was Re: [gclist] GC topics

Nick Kramer nk24+@andrew.cmu.edu
Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:02:58 -0500 (EST)


Excerpts by Charles Fiterman (cef@geode.geodesic.com):
> We can allocate leaf objects. These land in separate pages from
> non leaf objects. This makes scanning much faster.

How much faster?

I've also heard lots of talk about stack allocating objects when it can
be proved legal.  Does anyone know how much this helps in a Lisp-like
langauge?


-Nick Kramer