[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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