[DGD] Garbage collection...is it worth it?

Mikael Lind mikkelin at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 16:48:10 CET 2007


Hello,

2007/1/5, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com>:
> AFAIK, you can't handle memory usage as a resource because there's no
> way for the Klib to actually enforce it.  Memory usage of an object,
> swapped out or otherwise, can change in SO many ways that the Klib
> won't be able to detect.
>
> Creating a big fat tangle of arrays and mappings is only one way to do that.

I was actually thinking more along the lines of tracking memory usage,
not imposing strict limits on it.

Regards,
Mikael



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