On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:22 AM, WT wrote:
I'm curious now... Is that an "in principle" statement, or has it happened to a project that you know of? If the latter, can you elaborate a little on the nature of the project, as in what it was about it that outran the gc?

This is well covered in the archives.

To summarize: if you have a tight loop that is allocating tons of extremely short lived objects, you can get into a situation where the collector can't keep up. This is largely fixed in Snow Leopard, though it s still possible.

b.bum

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