Re: [racket-users] high memory usage of gui app

2015-09-07 Thread Matthias Felleisen
What you see is the basic memory needed to load and run the gui framework. [[ FWIW, Racket uses generational collection. ]] > On Sep 7, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Michael Titke wrote: > > I have written a little card game Open Flowers which needed about the same > amount of memory. > > My guess

Re: [racket-users] high memory usage of gui app

2015-09-07 Thread Michael Titke
I have written a little card game Open Flowers which needed about the same amount of memory. My guess is that amount of memory is just the "fuel memory" the engine needs from one garbage collection cycle to the next. Traditional mark&sweep stop-the-world garbage collection seems to come to an

[racket-users] high memory usage of gui app

2015-09-07 Thread Martin DeMello
I have a small GUI app that is taking up a lot of memory - 135MB even when run from a compiled executable and 235MB when run via "racket gui.rkt". Is this expected? If not, could someone please take a quick look and see if I'm doing something obviously wrong? Code is here: https://github.com/marti