Garbage collection

[Brian Rice]

I've added this to the main repository, but there are bugs there  
which prevent a full correct bootstrap. I am still looking into it,  
but you can see that the patch is trivial and can be applied and  
bootstrapped in easily:

lobby at LobbyObject collectGarbage
"Invokes the internal garbage-collection routine."
[
   CurrentMemory garbageCollect.
   CurrentMemory memorySize
] `pidginPrimitive.

Of course, it returns memorySize which is not very useful, but we  
don't have a ready way to ascertain the free space left. (Probably  
the best idea is to build an array of free, total, etc. sizes and  
return that).

On Sep 16, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Brian Rice wrote:

> Not right now. You can add a GC primitive to vm/ext/prims.slate  
> which calls CurrentMemory garbageCollect in pidgin.
>
> On Sep 16, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Nick Forde wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to force a GC cycle from Slate?
>> I'm running some timed performance tests and
>> want to reduce the impact of GC variations.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick.

--
-Brian