Re: a few observations & questions on gc

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From: Archie Cobbs (archie@whistle.com)
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 17:54:56 EST


Godmar Back writes:
> > > Therefore, I feel that we should always collect if we run out.
> >
> > I agree with this.
>
> I talked with Jason about it some more and while it the old criteria was
> clearly bogus, it appears that it may indeed make sense to sometimes get
> memory from the system instead of collecting.

Yes.. in my (oversimplified) view, any heuristic that has built-in
hysteresis should work OK.

-Archie

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