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Simon Marlow authored
Avoids contention for the block allocator lock in the GC; this can be seen in the gc_alloc_block_sync counter emitted by +RTS -s. I experimented with this a while ago, and there was already commented-out code for it in GCUtils.c, but I've now improved it so that it doesn't result in significantly worse memory usage. * The old method of putting spare blocks on ws->part_list was wasteful, the spare blocks are now shared between all generations and retained between GCs. * repeated allocGroup() results in fragmentation, so I switched to using allocLargeChunk() instead which is fragmentation-friendly; we already use it for the same reason in nursery allocation.
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