[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 70995] The GC should be parallel

Sun Oct 30 13:22:17 PDT 2011

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70995

--- Comment #26 from Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com>  2011-10-30 13:22:17 PST ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> "It also appears that this reduces GC pause times on real websites by more than half."
> 
> Well that seems quite nice.  How are you measuring this?  Is this a metric that is cheap enough to compute that we could consider putting it in our increasingly poorly named "Caches" debug window?

It's really cheap.  Just calls to currentTimeMS() before and after collect().  We should probably be tracking GC pause times, all the time, and allow users to see statistics on recent pause times whenver they want.

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