On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Iain Duncan wrote:
Is there a way to pre-emptively make the heap big from c or scheme,
aside from compiling in a default size?
(set! (*s7* 'heap-size) ...)
So I'm wondering if it would be reasonable to give users an option to
trade size for speed by allocating a big hunk of memory and cleaning up
when it doesn't matter.
That is very reasonable, but note that you cannot shrink the heap.
does a heap resize take a long time?
It requires copying the entire heap. Probably not something you would
want to do in real-time.
Do they take progressively more time (ie does the heap double or
somesuch thing)
Yes, it doubles. (Obviously this also means you're asymptotically less
likely to need a resize as time goes on...)
-E
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