#3462: New codegen: allocate large objects using allocateLocal() -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonmar | Owner: simonmar Type: task | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 7.10.1 Component: Runtime | Version: 6.11 System | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Operating System: | Difficulty: Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: 4258 Type of failure: Runtime | Related Tickets: performance bug | Test Case: | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * cc: simonmar (added) * failure: None/Unknown => Runtime performance bug * component: Compiler => Runtime System * owner: => simonmar Comment: Commit 5270423a6afe69f1dc57e5e5a474812182718d40: {{{ Author: Simon Marlow <> Date: Tue Dec 1 16:03:21 2009 +0000 ... - allocateLocal() now allocates large objects into the local nursery, rather than taking a global lock and allocating then in gen 0 step 0. ... - I removed the global allocate() function, and renamed allocateLocal() to allocate(). ... }}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3462#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler