read() performance - Linux.too?

Bob W nospam at aol.com
Mon Jul 24 14:41:41 PDT 2006


"Derek Parnell" <derek at nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message 
news:dg25ykpt8kxw$.1r2mhu0u851l0.dlg at 40tude.net...
>
> Its a GC effect. The GC is scanning through the buffer looking for
> addresses to clean up.

Sounds like the GC isn't overly smart. It would be nice to
have this fixed before the dmd 0.163 to dmd 1.0 transition.


> A simple delete of the buffer will prevent the GC from trying so hard.

Yes, I know. But as already mentioned in another post,
I am pretty reluctant to accept my responsibility to assist
the GC in performing an elegant exit.






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