Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Re: Heap resizing needs to pick up the pace to match mutation stack resizing!

[Felix]

> 
> After discussing this with Felix I came to the conclusion that the
> mutation stack is a distraction from the real issue, which is that the
> heap size must grow at least enough to contain all the objects from the
> nursery.  The attached patch simply checks that at least the nursery
> size is added to the current heap size.  The default heap size is also
> changed to be equal to the default nursery size.  This means each initial
> major GC can be postponed a little while longer.  This should speed up
> most programs because the heap won't be way too small like now.
> 

Pushed. Thanks, Peter.


cheers,
felix