A benchmark, mostly GC

[bearophile]

Marco Leise:

> Looking at the call graphs, it looks to me like a total of ~63 % of the  
> time is spend in memory management routines while the rest goes to BigInt.

But dsimcha said:

> My optimizations make very little difference on this benchmark, but for
> good reason:  It's not a very good GC benchmark.  I ran it with my GC
> profiling code enabled and it only spends around 10% of its execution
> time in GC.  We need to figure out why else this benchmark may be so slow.

How is this possible?

Bye,
bearophile