At Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:40:43 -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Any thoughts on how, by default, timing of garbage collection cycles is > affected by whether the process is "idle". > > For example, if non-GC threads are all waiting on events, might the > thread with GC be more likely to trigger a GC at that idle time, rather > than when some threads are working?
No. Eventually, we should improve the collector (or replace it with a better one) to support incremental collection. Then, it would be easy to use idle CPUs for GC work. Currently, though, if a GC is started, then the GC has to complete before anything else can happen, so a GC is triggered only by memory demand or explicit request. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
