[gambit-list] Help With Memory
Alex Shinn
alexshinn at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 22:21:07 EDT 2008
Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> Gambit does not use Cheney on the MTA, mainly because it interferes
> with the implementation of unrestricted calls from Scheme to C and
> from C to Scheme. Gambit's implementation of continuations is done
> with a lazy copy of the captured continuation. The performance is
> quite good... on the two call/cc intensive Gambit benchmarks (ctak and
> fibc) Gambit outperforms Chicken.
Really? This page
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Twobit/benchmarksFakeR6Linux.html
shows Chicken outperforming Gambit on ctak (it doesn't have
fibc).
--
Alex
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