awful memory usage with lots of big objects
By Paolo Bonzini - Posted on March 21st, 2008
| Project: | GNU Smalltalk |
| Component: | VM |
| Category: | bug |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Description
Big objects are allocated directly in oldspace. The pictures here explain it all:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/fulldata.php?test=pidigits&...
GST goes from the fastest of the bunch (even faster than LuaJIT despite being interpreted) to the slowest.