On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Galler <lzgal...@optonline.net> wrote: > I note that no one has discussed throwing a significant amount of physical > memory at the problem. > > Empirically, is that because garbage-collection of a large heap creates its > own performance problems?
Yes, GC pauses get annoying when the heap gets large. This can lead to timeouts on the client side. Cheers, N. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
