On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Yawar Amin wrote:

> Hi Juli, you can take a lookat https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/understanding-the-garbage-collecto
> r.html for some explanations of the various knobs. Specifically, the in-text
> note sections (marked with the icon of two pages) give some helpful hints.
> The first one on the page is 'Setting the Size of the Minor Heap'.

Is it possible to know when a major GC starts, to be able to measure the
time spent?  I saw the verbose flag in the control structure, but that
just prints a message.  I don't see how to get the time.

thanks,
julia

> Regards,
>
> Yawar
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
>       Hello,
>
>       Is there any reasonable way to reduce the amount of garbage
>       collection
>       activity in an OCaml program?  I see various knobs in the
>       control
>       structure, but I don't know what the impact of changing the
>       values would
>       be.
>
>       thanks,
>       juli
>
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