heap fragmentation?

[Jeff Sturm]

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