[m-rev.] for review: add support for MPS GC

[Fergus Henderson]

On 31-Jul-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> This is still fairly preliminary, and my initial performance
> results are not very encouraging.  However, I think this is
> now at a point where it is worth posting for review.
...
> Add support for interfacing Mercury with the MPS garbage collector.

My final performance results are still not very encouraging.
The conservative collector in MPS is not very well optimized,
and the resulting performance is significantly worse than
that for the Boehm collector (about a factor of four worse
for samples/e.m).

So, it looks like MPS is not going to be much use to us in
practice, at least not in the short to medium term.

Should I commit this change to the repository, or should I just
post a diff of my final changes here for posterity, and leave
them uncommitted?

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.
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