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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Large objects


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] Large objects
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:03:54 +0200
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Il 30/03/2012 10:53, Gwenaël Casaccio ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patch that allocate large objects on the fixed space,
> it improves the gc compact steps by making them fixed.

You also made them young in a patch that was reverted a while ago
(commit c51f7d2, do not automatically tenure large objects).  Can this
be reapplied with the grey pages fix?

> I've also changed the basicFixedNew and basicFixedNewWith
> primitives. They allocate directly objects on the fixed space
> unlike the old implementation that allocate them and move them
> in the fixed space.

This should be a separate patch.  I think indirect function calls hurt
on a fast path.

Paolo



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