Thanks Bill. I guess I was hoping reducing how much it had to scan over would make a scan faster, but am not correct. Do you have any suggestions for what one can do to cut GC times down on a code level when there is a lot of code going?
thanks iain On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 10:14 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > To keep an environment from the being garbage collected, > assign it to a global variable -- as long as the variable > holds the environment, it will be safe. This won't speed > up the GC. It's possible to make s7 strings that are not > seen at all by the GC (make_permament_string), but it's much > trickier for an environment -- you'd have to be sure that > every cell of every variable in the environment was > permanent; otherwise the cell might have no one else > referring to it, and the GC would free it. > >
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