On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbase...@gmail.com> wrote: > The > second reason, is that before every allocation the garbage collector will > perform a collection run. This can actually be disabled (at least in > theory) if you plan on doing several allocations in a short period of time, > and thereafter re-enabled.
It should be "before every allocation the garbage collector *may* perform a collection run." If it collected on every allocation it would make your program's execution speed next to useless ;)
