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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Aug-2002, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 08-Aug-2002, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> What about on the more meaningful benchmarks, such as the compiler itself?

For the compiler itself, the performance is much worse.
The bootcheck that I started last week still hasn't finished yet :-(

> > 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?
> 
> I think you should commit your changes to the existing code, and commit
> the MPS code itself in a module of its own. That way, people's workspaces
> won't be cluttered with a directory they don't use, but they can get
> Mercury working with MPS if they want to.

OK, shall do.

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