Earlier this week I hacked up some inline allocation routines for#

Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:14:49 +0000

Earlier this week I hacked up some inline allocation routines for SBCL. Each thread already has its own region, so Lisp code should be able to allocate within that region just by incrementing the (thread-local) free pointer, rather than calling into C for every 8 bytes. And now it can.

(For a long time pre-threading it used to be able to do this, but it was using a global variable to store the free pointer which was obviously not going to fly in an MP environment, so I ripped out that code when initially doing threads)

After a minor misapprehension regarding whether it would make any useful difference (summary: 5% to 15% speedup on some consy benchmarks), I've merged this change (or reinstation, if you prefer) into 0.8.13.11