From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr, nr@eecs.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: ratio of heap size to live data in Caml GC?
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:40:14 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200010081340.PAA0000023490@beaune.inria.fr> (raw)
>From: Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>
>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?
The collector is generational, with the young generation managed by a
stop-and-copy collector, and the old generation by a mark-and-sweep.
The default ratio of heap size to live data for the old heap is
supposed to be about 1.42, assuming that your program uses a constant
amount of live data.
-- Damien
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2000-10-08 13:40 Damien Doligez [this message]
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2000-10-03 21:50 Norman Ramsey
2000-10-04 10:14 ` David Mentré
2000-10-05 18:58 ` Chris Quinn
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