Alternative GCs for Kaffe ?

Pontus Rydin P.Rydin at astea.se
Sat Jul 25 13:22:42 PDT 1998


No, I didn't, but I did not really look for performance improvements. The
main purpose of my work was to adapt kaffe to work with an already existing
software that was using Boehm GC.

I've been using Boehm GC quite a lot and I am very pleased with its
performance. 

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> From: 	dyoung at mork.uni.uiuc.edu[SMTP:dyoung at mork.uni.uiuc.edu]
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> Subject: 	RE: Alternative GCs for Kaffe ?
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> 	Did you observe any performance increase using the Boehm GC vs.
> the default Kaffe GC ?
> 
> On Jul 18, 16:54, Pontus Rydin wrote:
> } Subject: RE: Alternative GCs for Kaffe ?
> > I did some playing around with an early version of kaffe (0.56 or
> something)
> > Boehm GC (formerely known as PARC GC). Adapting that version of Kaffe to
> > Boehm GC was pretty straight forward, ...
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Young * dcy2 cornell edu
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