The allocation strategy for immobile objects avoids some fragmentation
in non-incremental mode, but it interferes with finishing up an
incremental major collection, so trade some fragmentation for
an earlier finish (which is far more likely to use less memory
instead of more, despite extra fragmentation).
Really, just improve when majors GCs are forced to trigger
further finalizations. This improvement makes `(collect-garbage)`
followed by `(collect-garbage 'incremental)` move more
reliably into incremental mode.
When `(collect-garbage 'minor)` is combined with incremental
mode, do less incremental work. At the same time, don't
skip an incremental GC just because a major GC is ready.
Although calling `(collect-garbage 'incremental)` in a program with
a periodic task is the best way to request incremental collection, it's
handy for some experiments to have an environment variable that turns
it on permanently.
This change also makes incremental-mode minor collections log as "mIn"
instead of "min", and it changes the first field of the logged
`gc-info` structure to be a mode symbol instead of a boolean.
Incremental GC now works well enough to be useful for some programs
(e.g., games). Memory accounting is still not incremental, so DrRacket
(and running programs in DrRacket) does not really support incremental
collection, although pause times can be much shorter in incremental
mode than by default.
This step is semi-incremental, in that it can happen during
incremental collection, but all finalization is performed at once.
This will work well enoguh if the number of finalizers, weak boxes,
etc., will be small enough relative to the heap size.
The bug was an induced failure in the http server, to test retry
support, triggered another run of half of the synchronization
protocol, leading to a stuck state.
Casting a `uintptr_t` to `double` seems not to round to
nearest, so keep all bits while moving to `double` and
use arithmetic to combine them (since the rounding mode
is used correctly for arithmetic).
The strategy of converting a bignum to a flonum by converting on word
boundaries can lose one bit of precision. (If the use of a word
boundary causes a single bit to get rounded away, but the first bit of
the next word is non-zero, then the rounding might have been down when
it should have been up.)
Avoid the problem by aligning relative to the high bit, instead.
Fix even basic readind when extflonums are not supported, but
also fix reading extflonums with large exponents (related to
the other recent changes to number parsing).
Allow a more dynamic (than `impersonator-prop:application-mark`)
determination of continuation marks and associated values to wrap the
call of an impersonated procedure.
