Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: the garbage collector is not doing its job

[Stefan Schmiedl]

On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:08:24 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Thanks for improving this central part of gst,
> 
> It's not improving.  It's making it do what was meant to do.  

Oh ... well, if that's so, then it was about time :-)

> I'd rather 
> not have touched it even with a pole, but...
> 
> Anyway, 0% CPU usage when waiting for connections is more than a good 
> reason to do it.

As an added bonus, I just reran my Iliad benchmarks (with the most recent
gst and iliad) and the timings are between 5% and 10% percent better.
Memory usage seems a bit improved, too, but I'm not really sure there.

s.