On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:01:03AM -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Thursday 26 November 2009 06:51:00 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > I don't quite understand this last comment. Do short-lived objects > > have a big impact on GC if they are created and then die before a GC > > run is triggered? > > They do, because we have to trace the entire live set on every > GC run, even if only 10% of the GCables created are live and > 90% are short-lived.
Thanks, this helps explain it a bit. Pm _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
