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diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/gc-roots-darwin.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/gc-roots-darwin.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e8e90a397 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/gc-roots-darwin.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +synopsis: Find GC roots using libproc on Darwin +cls: 723 +credits: artemist +category: Improvements +--- + +Previously, the garbage collector found runtime roots on Darwin by shelling out to `lsof -n -w -F n` then parsing the result. The version of `lsof` packaged in Nixpkgs is very slow on Darwin, so Lix now uses `libproc` directly to speed up GC root discovery, in some tests taking 250ms now instead of 40s. |