Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why do you want to free memory at a particular point of time?
>
> I don't. However, I *do* want it freed by the time I need it again,
As I said, the rate of GC depends on the rate of allocation.
Unreachable objects are collected when memory is needed for
allocation.
> and I *don't* want unpredictable pauses to catch up on backed-up
> memory-freeing,
Incremental GC (e.g. in OCaml) has short pauses. It doesn't scan all
memory at once, but distributes the work among GC cycles.
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