>
>
> One thing you've overlooked in your conclusions is the effect of keeping
> large numbers of "live" objects in memory has on the garbage collector.
> The processing of an individual item might be faster, but as the size of
> the active memory heap grows, each garbage collection cycle takes longer
> because there are more live objects that need to be traced. Add in the
> paging effects from having a larger working set, and I'm not particularly
> surprised that step benchmarks as faster. If you don't really need to have
> all of the data in memory at one time, you are better off not retrieving
> everything at one time.
>
>
Rick, thanks. This leads to the question - does explicit 'drop' statements
reduce the work for the garbage collection? I would believe so...
Staffan
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