Re: depending on a customized library

["Michael K. Edwards" <m.k.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 5/17/05, Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote:
> Thanks, Ryan, for your quick reply.  I suspected that the correct thing
> to do would be to just accept the performance hit (although 15% seems
> pretty significant).  I'll wait to see if anyone else has suggestions.
> Otherwise, I'll just compile using normal libgc, and talk with my
> upstream.
> 
> By the way, have you heard of any other comments about multi-threaded
> libgc being slower than single-threaded?

I'd be surprised if it's that bad under NPTL, and if it is, I'd be
surprised if it can't be substantially improved (at least on x86) with
a little bit of oprofile work.  When was that performance comparison
done?

Cheers,
- Michael