Disabling garbage colletion?

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Mon May 20 09:03:50 EDT 2002


"Philip Swartzleonard" <starx at pacbell.net> wrote ...
> Hm, i just read in another post that you can turn off the garbage
> collector? What exactly does this stop from happening? Is this a good idea
> if e.g. you have a system which is guarenteed not to have cyclic-y
> problems? Hm..... =)


It's only a good idea of you think your program triggers bugs in the garbage
collection and you want to verifdy that theory! Otherwise, GC is such asmall
overhead that you hardly notice it in terms of execution time, and it keeps
overall memory utilisation much lower.

regards
 Steve
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