Thank you very much for that pointer, that looks helpful :) I'll also make sure to ask over at erlang-questions!
Tobi On 05/31/2016 01:29 AM, Dmitry Belyaev wrote: > Returning to the available choices rather than discussion of necessity. > > You can try to use erlang:spawn_opt > http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#spawn_opt-2 setting > fullsweep_after and min_heap_size to high values to reduce chances of > garbage collection. > > You should also ask this in erlang-questions list as there are some > people who know internals of beam vm but don't track questions in this > mailing list. > > On 30 May 2016 5:34:14 PM AEST, Tobias Pfeiffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > is there a way in Elixir/Erlang to turn off the Garbage collection? I've > searched and what I found so far is :erlang.garbage_collect to force > garbage collection. > http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#garbage_collect-0 > > Is there any way to turn it off completely? > > Why would I want to do that? I'm working on a benchmarking tool and I > don't want garbage collection to mess with my measured execution times. > > Any hints welcome :) > Tobi > > > -- > Best wishes, > Dmitry Belyaev -- http://www.pragtob.info/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/574D6065.5040906%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
