On Monday 04 February 2008, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi > That would be nice. But its only beneficial if there are programs > which takes large amounts of stack at some point, but then shrink down > to very little stack and continue for a reasonable amount of time.
From the 'when I was a lad' department... Thinking back to when Java transitioned to a garbage collector that could give memory back to the OS, we got some unexpected benefits. Consider a machine that's running a load of programs, launched from some q system e.g. LSF/condor. If they keep memory, the box, q scheduler or admins get unhappy. If I had £1 for each time our admins said "your 200 java apps are using 500m each!!!!" when I could see for sure that except for an initial memory burn during loading files in, only a few megs where resident. Magically, once Java could release heap, these grypes went away. Matthew > Thanks > > Neil > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
