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RE: heap fragmentation?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:58:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: heap fragmentation?
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> The only thing I see here that's clearly suboptimal is the size of
> static roots. That basically gets added to the size of live heap data
> when making heap expansion decisions, since it needs to be scanned for
> each collection.
I forgot to mention: a workaround for this is increasing
GC_free_space_divisor, trading speed for size (just like the comment
says in gc.h).
Jeff