On Wednesday 25 April 2007 10:00, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Basically, if you run the program without -G and then break it, it will > usually break inside the GC routine. What I do remember is that it was > looping through some kinda memory pool, or arena, or whatever. However, > the thing it was looping through was *huge* (like, from 0 to a six > figure number) and I think it maybe was an n^2 algorithm, which > amplified the effect further.
This reminds me of the subtitle of a terrible Star Trek movie: Generations. I wonder if we performing smaller collections and compacting only up to a certain threshold would perform better. -- c
