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;;;; files for more information.
-;;; GC tuning has little effect on the x86 due to the generational
-;;; collector. For the older stop & copy collector, it assuredly
-;;; does. GC time is proportional to the amount of non-garbage
-;;; needing collection and copying; when the application involved is
-;;; the SBCL compiler, it doesn't take any longer to collect 20 Mb than
-;;; to collect 2 Mb. -dan, 20000819
-;;;
-;;; Actually, tweaking *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* to 20Mb instead of
-;;; the default 2 seemed to make SBCL rebuild O(25%) faster on my 256
-;;; Mb K6/3, so I think it does have some effect on X86/GENCGC. I
-;;; haven't looked into why this would be, though. Also, I'm afraid
-;;; that using 20Mb here might be unfriendly to people using more-reasonable
-;;; machines (like old laptops with 48Mb of memory..) so I've
-;;; suppressed this tweak except for Alpha. -- WHN 2001-05-11
-#+(and sbcl alpha) ; SBCL/Alpha uses stop-and-copy, and Alphas have lotso RAM.
-(progn
- (sb-ext:gc-off)
- (setf (sb-ext:bytes-consed-between-gcs) (* 20 (expt 10 6)))
- (sb-ext:gc-on)
- (sb-ext:gc))
-
;;; SB-COLD holds stuff used to build the initial SBCL core file
;;; (including not only the final construction of the core file, but
;;; also the preliminary steps like e.g. building the cross-compiler
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