A benchmark

[Sean Kelly]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
>> But I
>> wonder what did it do in that ten seconds. Did it scan the array being 
>> deleted
>> for hidden pointers?
> 
> Yup. GC is a lousy tool to use for 64Mb arrays. A program necessarily is 
> not going to have many of those, and they should be handled with 
> explicit allocation/delete.

It would be nice if the GC could be told not to scan them as well (or if 
this were sorted out automatically using type information), but that's 
something I gather will happen at some point anyway if you're working on 
a compacting GC :-)


Sean