On 01/03/17 13:55, David Matthews wrote:
>> On 24/02/17 13:26, Makarius wrote:
>> My current guess is that it is a problem of compiled ML code that is no
>> longer garbage-collected.
> 
> The current version does garbage collect code; it's just that it only
> happens at a major GC.  Previously when code was part of the general
> heap a short-lived code cell would be garbage-collected by a minor GC.
> It could be that this is problem or it could be that there is a bug
> which is resulting in code not being properly collected.

> I'm inclined to release the current version of git master as 5.7 and
> then look into this and other issues.

OK, it merely means that we need to skip this version for official
Isabelle use. I will continue testing Poly/ML repository versions privately.


        Makarius


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