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- Performance of the incremental collector can be greatly enhanced with
- -DNO_EXECUTE_PERMISSION.
- The collector should run with all of the -32, -n32 and -64 ABIs. Remember to
- define the AS macro in the Makefile to be "as -64", or "as -n32".
- If you use -DREDIRECT_MALLOC=GC_malloc with C++ code, your code should make
- at least one explicit call to malloc instead of new to ensure that the proper
- version of malloc is linked in.
- Sproc threads are not supported in this version, though there may exist other
- ports.
- Pthreads support is provided. This requires that:
- 1) You compile the collector with -DGC_IRIX_THREADS specified in the Makefile.
- 2) You have the latest pthreads patches installed.
- (Though the collector makes only documented pthread calls,
- it relies on signal/threads interactions working just right in ways
- that are not required by the standard. It is unlikely that this code
- will run on other pthreads platforms. But please tell me if it does.)
- 3) Every file that makes thread calls should define IRIX_THREADS and then
- include gc.h. Gc.h redefines some of the pthread primitives as macros which
- also provide the collector with information it requires.
- 4) pthread_cond_wait and pthread_cond_timed_wait should be prepared for
- premature wakeups. (I believe the pthreads and realted standards require this
- anyway. Irix pthreads often terminate a wait if a signal arrives.
- The garbage collector uses signals to stop threads.)
- 5) It is expensive to stop a thread waiting in IO at the time the request is
- initiated. Applications with many such threads may not exhibit acceptable
- performance with the collector. (Increasing the heap size may help.)
- 6) The collector should not be compiled with -DREDIRECT_MALLOC. This
- confuses some library calls made by the pthreads implementation, which
- expect the standard malloc.
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