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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prev 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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