Re: substantial performance loss when running long-lived or computationally intensive programs

[Mikael Djurfeldt]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> One thing that does nag me, is code in srcprop.c that manipulates
> scm_mallocated directly and doesn't call
> scm_gc_register_collectable_memory(). Is there a good reason for this?

Nope.  Only that scm_gc_register_collectable_memory() didn't exist
when srcprop.c was written in 1996.  In fact, at that time, direct
manipulation was probably the only possibility.

Please feel free to change this.

M