[Ecls-list] boehem gc vs built in gc

[Bruce O'Neel]

Hi,

I have the same program reading the same data on 5 different systems that produces 
vastly different results.

40 meg NetBSD current i386 box needs 26 meg of memory
320meg NetBSD 2.0.2 ppc box needs 60 some meg of meory
280meg NetBSD current sparc box with 3 cpus needs 60 megs per copy running
160meg NetBSD 2.0.2 i386 box needs 90 meg of memory
256meg FreeBSD 5.1 sparc64 box with 2 cpus wants 130+ meg per copy running.

Now, I'm not too stunned by the sparc64 box wanting more memory.  What I am a
bit suprised is the differences on the 32 bit systems.  I'd like therefore to
build ECL so that it uses it's internal gc rather than the bohem one so that
commands such as (room) start working.  Top doesn't give me fine enough data
to help :-)

Does anyone have thoughts about whether or not this is a good/bad idea?

Thanks.

cheers

bruce

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