Re: Eager garbage collection

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Setting a lower threshold there also prevents functions that may be
>> executed by timers to leave the heap with garbage just before the user
>> start the next command.
>
> This is risky, tho, because a low threshold will increase the proportion
> of time spent in GC, which could negatively impact the performance of
> process-filters.

When I say low threshold I think to something in the magniture order of
the current default, so in practice this is not a problem.

Also I though was a feature to have the guarantee that before starting
the next command after idle the garbage was under a certain threshold.

As a consequence I still have the Lisp as my favorite.

That said, I indeed like the feature :)

  Andrea