- when thread_get_room exhausts the local allocation area, it now
goes through a common path with S_get_more_room to allocate a new
local allocation area when appropriate. this can greatly reduce
the use of global allocation (and the number of tc mutex acquires
in threaded builds) when a lot of small objects are allocated by
C code with no intervening Scheme-side allocation or dirty writes.
alloc.c, types.h, externs.h
original commit: 93dfa7674a95837e5a22bc622fecc50b0224f60d
is a fixnum and added meta-asserts to verify that it is in a couple of
others, to facilitate future changes to vector typing. vectors are
now treated essentially like fxvectors, strings, and bytevectors.
cmacros.ss, cpnanopass.ss, prims.ss, mkheader.ss,
alloc.c, gc.c, scheme.c
original commit: 564542d32bbae6b33cef808613238d5a4a2a8ee2
