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Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 11:49:10 +0300
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Perfomance of gc-simple
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It sounds like you could try to solve this by simply having the right
> #define's in the system headers, to dupe the configure script into
> thinking we have valloc.  I suggest to see how well does this work.
> 
> As for mmap, it should be trivial to throw together a KISS[1]
> implementation that simply reads the entire file into memory, and see
> how well (or how badly ;-) does that work, especially with very large
> sources.

OK, at first I'll try to make gc-page use simple malloc() (and possibly
dumping gc-simple forever). If I'll fail there, I'll try to do something
with mmap() or valloc().

Laurynas Biveinis