So, theoretically, I do nothing and I can benefit from an effective collector ?
Nevertheless, I would like to force a garbage collection. In this case, what namespace I have to use in the aim to apply a GC_gcollect() ?
Thanks and sorry this probably stupid question
From: Jonathan Pryor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: HannibAl Bundie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] How to use the Boehm garbage collector Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 07:05:27 -0400
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 05:30, HannibAl Bundie wrote:
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> After the installation of gc6.2 I don't know what I have to do. I have read
> that I must rebuilt the mono core environment, but I have installed mono
> with RPM packages. So, is there any other way to use Boehm collector ?
What are you trying to do, exactly? Mono already uses Boehm GC 6.2, which is included with the mono source tree (along with some Mono-specific patches).
If you want to use a different Boehm GC, you have to rebuild Mono from source. Period. When configuring Mono, give it the --with-gc=boehm argument to use an already installed Boehm GC. The default is --with-gc=included, which uses the Mono-provided Boehm GC.
> Also, I would be very grateful if I could have an example of the use of > Boehm collector with a C# program.
C# runs in a garbage collecting environment. To use the Boehm collector, or any collector for that matter, you...do nothing. That, of course, is the whole point to GC systems -- the programmer doesn't need to do anything. Just keep allocating memory, and the GC will automatically collect it when memory runs low.
There are some caveats. You need to make sure that the memory can be collected, that your memory is actually garbage at some point. You can speed up the process by nulling out fields and variables when you no longer use them. Long-living GC objects can slow things down, especially if they're *large*, long-living objects...
MSDN has a variety of articles describing what programs can do to make the GC more efficient.
- Jon
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