Reducing the cost of garbage collecting small arrays

[Johan Tibell]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is 5 the optimal number of bits to slice off at a time (ie the best
>> fanout)?  It sounds like node copy cost on insert argues for a
>> slightly narrower fanout.  You'll be evacuating / scanning more words
>> total, but new nodes may equate to less scanning overall (especially
>> if this is running long enough to have some nodes get tenure).
>
> I'm experimenting with this. 6 is far too much, making inserts 4-5x
> slower. 4 doesn't seem to improve things much (which is a bit
> counter-intuitive given that 6 made things so much work), but I need
> to experiment some more.

After some more testing I can improve the performance of insert by 30%
by reducing the array size from 32 to 16. GC still dominates though.

Johan