Garbage collection

[Nick Forde]

Great, thanks.

I thought this was the case but wanted to be sure I hadn't
missed something. Perhaps #garbageCollect should also be renamed
#collectGarbage (vm/ext/prims.slate & vm/gc/mark-compact.slate).

Nick.

Brian Rice wrote:
> 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
> 
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