patch applied (ghc): Keep track of an accurate count of live words in each step

Tue Jun 17 10:38:12 EDT 2008

Wed Apr 16 15:06:20 PDT 2008  Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com>
  * Keep track of an accurate count of live words in each step
  This means we can calculate slop easily, and also improve
  predictability of GC.

    M ./includes/Storage.h +1
    M ./rts/Stats.c -14 +20
    M ./rts/sm/GC.c -10 +14
    M ./rts/sm/GC.h -1 +1
    M ./rts/sm/Storage.c -3 +3

View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/patches/20080416220620-8214f-02cf140fa0c4d6874f6917b16b71ba1b602d2673.gz