On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 10:53:38PM -0800, David Hanley wrote: > > I noticed my heap was growing every time i compiled & > loaded my program. > > Is this a known problem? is there a workaround/fix?
It's probably just an artifact of generational GC. Probably the function definitions are being promoted to a more senior generation since they are bound to interned symbols. Old LW implementations (4.1) would require one to run an explicit mark-and-sweep before such values were collected, IIRC. -- -> -/ - Rahul Jain - \- <- -> -\ http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /- <- -> -/ "Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook \- <- -> -\ people if [they] try to walk around on their own. I really /- <- -> -/ wonder why XML does not." -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp \- <- |--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-| (c)1996-2002, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request.
