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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A question about GC.

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:37:46 +0200
Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info> wrote:

> As far as I know, when OCaml's GC is not working as expected, it's
> (almost) always because there are blocks allocated outside OCaml's
> heap (a.k.a. custom blocks).

Custom blocks are allocated on ocaml heap.
 
> How big are custom blocks? The bigger they are, the worst the behavior
> tends to be.

Why?

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