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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@gmail.com>
Cc: Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientician.net>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cost of register_global_root (was: Stopping a value from getting GC'd)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:51:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050818105147.GA12442@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aee06c9e050817183110b38537@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:31:13PM -0700, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> One thing that the FM doesn't mention is how expensive it is to
> register a global root.  Can I register thousands of them or will
> there be performance problems?

Yes, there is a performance problem.

A Gtk program we wrote used (IIRC) GtkListView, which caused 1000s of
roots to be registered.  The program slowed down appreciably.

http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/lablgtk-list/1062

Rich.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-18 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-17  4:12 [Caml-list] Stopping a value from getting GC'd Jonathan Roewen
2005-08-17  5:36 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-08-18  1:31   ` Cost of register_global_root (was: Stopping a value from getting GC'd) Nathaniel Gray
2005-08-18  2:40     ` [Caml-list] Cost of register_global_root Alain Frisch
2005-08-18  5:19       ` Nathaniel Gray
2005-08-18  3:57     ` [Caml-list] Cost of register_global_root (was: Stopping a value from getting GC'd) Markus Mottl
2005-08-18 17:13       ` skaller
2005-08-18 10:51     ` Richard Jones [this message]

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