[pypy-dev] funding/popularity?

[Armin Rigo]

Hi Paolo,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Paolo Giarrusso <p.giarrusso at gmail.com> wrote:
> From your description, I guess that what you describe as "raw memory"
> is not accounted in the stats triggering GC. That would explain the
> behavior you describe, and suggest an easy fix. Indeed, one could wrap
> the raw-memory allocator to create and update such stats; then the
> heap-overflow check could consider them to decide whether to trigger
> GC. The details of the modified heap-overflow check would probably not
> be entirely trivial, but still doable.

Absolutely.  I will write it down in extradoc/planning/ for now.


Armin