On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 01:56:35PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote: > Duke (>): > > I was under the impression that our new default GC is better designed, > > but still does not have optimal behavior in terms of memory use. Most > > people don't feel it because they have lots of memory. > > > > Am I wrong about that? > > Oh, I feel the GC. I have 4 GB of memory. > > Whenever I want to do something real-time interactive in Rakudo, I can > see the GC causing Parrot to pulse. This simple one-liner explains > pictorially what I'm talking about: > <http://gist.github.com/638298>
See also the "zigzag matrix" demo in Larry's talk from YAPC::Asia, where he's able to explicitly call out the garbage collection runs as they occur: http://www.youtube.com/user/yapcasia#p/u/131/uzUTIffsc-M (zigzag matrix demo starts at 10:30 in the video). Pm _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
