[M3devel] Am I experiencing garbage collection?

[Jay]

pthreads is the default, and I suspect it is the only thing that works currently.

 

I started debugging why it wasn't working on PPC_LINUX, the reason seemed to be that the initial thread was used before it was allocated, but I stopped debugging and just switched to pthreads.

NetBSD/x86 didn't work as it was -- didn't even compile I think -- so I switched it to pthreads as well. (I'll have a NetBSD/x86 archive up very soon.)

 

I might go back and debug these again..

 

 - Jay

 
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:43:07 -0400
> From: hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Am I experiencing garbage collection?
> 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:26:55AM +1100, Tony Hosking wrote:
> > That's good (from my perspective) because I worried the collector was 
> > getting in the way. Looks like something else perhaps. I suggest 
> > profiling somehow to get a sense as to what is interrupting you. Are 
> > you running with pthreads?
> 
> I don't know whether I'm using pthreads. I just grabbed the source 
> from the web site and compiled for a while.
> 
> Critical Mass Modula-3 version d5.7.0
> last updated: 2008-03-16
> compiled: 2008-04-09 01:32:11
> configuration: /usr/local/cm3/bin/cm3.cfg
> 
> Anyway, pthreads or not, my process isn't the only one on the machine.
> 
> And there's easy application-dependent workarounds. And some changes I 
> have to make for other reasons will probably bypass the problem 
> I'm having now anyway.
> 
> Let me say that your surprise at the thought that the garbage collector 
> could be causing these interruptions is a strong indication that I 
> won't have to worry about collection delays.
> 
> -- hendrik
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