While `#:in-original-place? #t` provides one way to serialize
foreign calls, it acts as a single lock and requires expensive
context switches. Using an explicit lock can be more efficient
for serializing calls across different places.
For example, running "plot.scrbl" takes 70 seconds on my machine
in the original place and using `#:lock-name` in any place,
while it took 162 seconds in a non-main place with Cairo+Pango
serialization via `#:in-original-place? #t`.
Internally, the named lock combines compare-and-swap with a
place channel. That strategy gives good performance in the case
of no contention, and it cooperates properly with the Racket
scheduler where there is contention.
The optimizer was able to use the type information gained outside
the let's to reduce expressions inside the lets. For example, in
(lambda (z) (car z) (let ([o (random)]) (pair? z)))
it reduces (pair? z) ==> #t.
This enable the propagation in the other direction so in
(lambda (z) (let ([o (random)]) (car z)) (pair? z))
it reduces (pair? z) ==> #t too.
Using `(thread-resume t1 t2)` would not prevent a GC of t1, but it
would create an intermediate record to make the link from t1 to t2,
and that intermediate record would leak due to a missing level of
indirection in a table-cleanup traveral. The leak not only accumulated
memory, it also caused ever slower traversals of the table in an
attempt to clean up.
(Since the leak is small and the leaking object is not directly
accessible, I don't have a good idea on how to test this repair
automatically, but see the program in the PR.)
Closes PR 15099.
Modern OS configurations likely use an even larger buffer size, and
making it small can have substantial negative performance effects
(e.g., with PostgreSQL over TCP).
When AC_PROG_CC picks GCC, move its selection of CFLAGS
into CPPFLAGS, so that preprocessing will have the same
optimization and debugging flags as compilation.
Arguably, AC_PROG_CC plus AC_PROG_CPP should do that
soemhow, but it's understandable that the autoconf
implementers didn't cover the possibility of
preprocessing that changes with the optimization level.
Closes#945
- Coalesce repeated use of the same predicate.
- Fix scoring of Exact patterns, and scoring generally.
- Use `OrderedAnd` where needed.
- Guarantee that `and` patterns match in order.
- Thread bound variable information properly in GSeq compilation.
- Warn when variables are used non-linearly with `...`
(making this behave properly was not backwards compatible).
Closes#952, which now runs in <1ms and make it a test case.
Also add margin note about `?` patterns and multiple calls.
