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Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default? |
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Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:05:24 -0400 |
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> Maybe it would be possible to garbage collect in chunks and check
> after each chunk for input?
It's called "incremental GC". XEmacs does it this way. It'd be nice
to have, indeed. It's often not too hard to go from "incremental" to
"concurrent", tho, so I think if we want to go there we should aim for
a concurrent GC.
Stefan
Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2020/04/10
Re: Garbage collector: is 800kb a good default?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/09