AW: [Mono-devel-list] GC/Memory allocation performance

[Paolo Molaro]

On 05/30/03 Marcus wrote:
> Doesn't Boehm's GC have a compacting mode? I know that SRC Modula-3 (and its 
> descendants) for over 10 years have used a Boehm GC that is generational, 
> incremental, and compacting.

The standard Boehm GC can do some form of incremental/generational
collectiong (but no compacting), but enabling it in mono always results
in a SEGV in libgc's code for me. It may still be a mono issue, I didn't
investigate it. That support also relies on trapping SIGSEGV that mono
uses too to handle null ref exceptions, so it may not be possible to
deal with it anyway.
Enabling it for the C microbenchmark makes the numbers worse, though,
from 0.95 to 1.2 for the statically compiled version.

lupus

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