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> Well, this probably could be turned on/off using a environment variable (something like OBJC_CYCLE_GC)... but the point is that the overhead shouldn't be that big; Inferno's algorithm was projected to do really small steps each time, so that it wouldn't have to suddenly stop-the-world as most GCs.
Which is cool; but it's still going to lower overall performance by some amount. (Back in the day, the rule of thumb was that any garbage collector would add at least ~10% overhead to the CPU time taken by a typical program.)
> I'm still testing the runtime overhead on GNUStep, but I believe that the overhead will be really small. I would probably be able to test the same thing for Apple's as well (if I manage to build it from source…).
That would be cool!
—Jens
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