dbuenzli/react — pull request #15 by nilsbecker (2014-11-24 23:17:32+00:00)
Title: eliminating some weak array creations

i noticed that my simulation-minibenchmarks spent most of their time in weak array creation and garbage collection. here is a naive attempt at reducing this load.

the result is that overhanging weak arrays stay around but will be collected whenever it's convenient. it seems that within react.ml, having weak arrays longer than Wa.len says, is not a problem. Wa.t is not public so there should not be a problem for clients

the tests in test.ml pass. also, in one mini-benchmark,
https://gist.github.com/nilsbecker/2ec8d0a136e2fcc20184#file-react_minibenchmark-ml
this version is up to 20% faster

i am not sure if the Wa.clear is needed on finish. anyway, the whole thing is pretty much a stab in the dark, so could be nonsense.