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Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after G
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Joe Marshall |
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Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it. |
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Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:26:14 -0700 |
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's not clear to me that there's one generally best choice of
> behavior here. I would like my system, at least, to be responsive
> and without a gigabyte of Scheme's garbage in swap. And in the long
> run, we need a better story for how garbage collection and VM systems
> cooperate, especially in low-memory situations, which I don't think
> anybody has at the moment. For now, perhaps there should be a
> command-line option to toggle freeing of pages.
I like the idea of an option one can set, but maybe it should be a
primitive instead of a flag?
--
~jrm
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Taylor R Campbell, 2011/10/04
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Joe Marshall, 2011/10/05
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Taylor R Campbell, 2011/10/05
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Joe Marshall, 2011/10/06
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Taylor R Campbell, 2011/10/06
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Joe Marshall, 2011/10/07
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Taylor R Campbell, 2011/10/07
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Joe Marshall, 2011/10/07
- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it.,
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- Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit f372dae] Don't call OS_free_pages after GC flip. We don't resize the heap and we will be reusing it., Taylor R Campbell, 2011/10/08