Re: Dumper problems and a possible solutions

[Stefan Monnier]

> But I still don't understand how you get to 400MB.  It's not that we
> allocate hundreds of those 700K tables for charsets.  Do you have an
> explanation for this?

Probably that when the GC collects some space and passes it to `free'
that space gets "lost" since his `free' is a no-op.
Maybe a quick fix is to tell GC not to free any blocks that it could
free, and instead keep them in its pool of blocks ready for re-use.


        Stefan