Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Another subtle GC problem

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:43:24AM +0200, Moritz Heidkamp wrote:
> looks OK and works fine AFAICT. Pushed!

Thanks!

> > When shrinking the heap, this check won't need to be run because
> > we've just done a GC, so there *should be* no pressure on
> > the nursery, so it won't get copied to the heap.  But I don't
> > fully grok this part yet, so don't take my word for it.
> 
> So this would get rid of one comparsion operation per major GC?

No, the patch adds an *extra* comparison per major GC.  I was just
really thinking out loud, because I was a little worried that the
resizing logic for adding the stack size might be broken when
*shrinking* the heap.  But like I said, I think it works due to the
fact that shrinking only happens after performing a minor GC.

Cheers,
Peter
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