[m-dev.] Boehm parallel marking performance.

[Peter Wang]

2009/6/2 Paul Bone <pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au>:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:43:11PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
>> It would be interesting to see the improvement from parallel marking in
>> non-.par grades, and if enabling parallel marking at compile time but not
>> at runtime has any adverse effects. (Set GC_NPROCS=1)
>
> I thought about this breifly, intuitivly I think the synchronization required
> might make it slower, since without parallel mark in a sequential program
> synchronization is not needed at all.
>
> I don't understand why you would want to test parallel marking at compile time
> but then disable it at run time.

So we can compile in support for parallel marking in all C grades, knowing
that we won't incur any overhead on single core machines.  (You might also
want to deliberately disable parallel marking if the multi-core machine is
already heavily loaded.)

Peter
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