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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:50:09 -0400
From: Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: ratio of heap size to live data in Caml GC?
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Can anybody tell me what ratio of heap size to live data the OCaml collector
needs to perform well?  The default ratio appears to be 2.4.  I assume
this means the collector is a mark-and-sweep collector?


Norman