space profiling
Stephen Weeks
MLton@sourcelight.com
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:52:59 -0700
> I just realized that the space profiling is definitely going to have a real
> problem with overflowing the bins. If I have a hot loop allocating lots of
> junk, it isn't hard for one location to be responsible for more than 2^32
> bytes of allocation.
I agree.
> This seems like another argument for going for the
> procedure call, and having the linked list use 64 bits worth of counter (plus
> 32 bits for the link). This way you are safe from wrapping.
Couldn't we just go to 64 bit bins?