On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 11:48:26 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 15/04/2015 11:44 p.m., Chris wrote:
My garbage collected app starts with ~10 MB in memory, however
with
every execution of code it grows by at least 0.2 MB (or more
depending
on the input). Although I can see memory being freed (say it
goes up to
32 MB and drops to 14 MB), it keeps on growing slowly but
surely.
I use structs for the most part [1] and reuse arrays at
critical points,
clearing them with destroy() after use. Maybe this is the
problem? I
dunno. I'd be grateful for any hints.
[1] The few classes I use are either singletons or
instantiated only
once and cached when the programs starts.
Sounds like you are doing a LOT of allocations. Try with -vgc
during compilation to find out where you are allocating.
Just did that, for the most part it's:
- indexing an associative array may cause GC allocation
- operator ~= may cause GC allocation
- operator ~ may cause GC allocation
Whereas "'new' causes GC allocation" is rare and applies only to
classes that are instantiated only once. I use appender a lot,
too.
There might be some low-hanging fruit there. However, before I
change anything, maybe you guys have some suggestions.
