Maybe we should have it run automatically under some circumstances. Say, every
few GCs, or when space gets low.
On Jun 23, 2020, 5:10 PM -0700, Matt Birkholz <m...@birchwood-abbey.net>, wrote:
> trigger-secondary-gc-daemons!? That one got me (several years ago).
> It seems the only caller is gc-clean. A surprising number of things
> hang around until secondary gc daemons are... summoned?
>
> On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 17:09 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > I haven't been able to do a complete test run on 32-bit systems for a
> > while. If I run `make check', it consistently runs out of memory
> > trying to compile test-floenv.scm or test-flonum.scm. However, if I
> > just compile the file in a fresh Scheme, it works fine, so
> >
> > (a) there's probably some memory leak in the test suite, and
> > (b) there's probably some excessive compiler data structures.
> >
> > I tried the attached string of patches to work around this, and it
> > worked to get test-floenv.scm compiling, and it made some progress
> > through test-flonum.scm, but it still runs out of memory partway
> > through.
> >
> > This is not a very high priority so I'm not going to spend much more
> > time on it for a while.
>
>
