On 1/21/06, Zbigniew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've thought about this some more, and I guess I don't fully > understand it after all. Given a pending-finalizer buffer size of > XXX, using the -:fXXX option, simply having more than XXX live > finalizers forces a major GC every time a new finalizer is created. > None of these finalizers are pending, so why does the pending buffer > size come into play? Is this simply a pathological case which cannot > be fixed without increasing the pending buffer? Are we constrained by > the total number of finalizers irrespective of how many are live or > pending invocation?
The runtime system doesn't know at that time how many of the finalizers will become free after the next GC, so it conservatively forces a GC in the hope of releasing some of them. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
