Re: Question about garbage collection
Re: Question about garbage collection
- Subject: Re: Question about garbage collection
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:52 -0800
On Jan 4, 2010, at 5:31 AM, Quincey Morris wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2010, at 18:21, Ben Haller wrote:
>
>> Bill, I for one would like to hear a bit more about this. What has changed in SL? Why would it ever be possible to outrun the collector? If the limit of memory is being reached, can't it always just do an immediate, synchronous collection before the call to +alloc returns? I'd love to have a better understanding of what's going on under the hood here...
>
> I think this:
>
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2009/Jun//msg01586.html
>
> is the thread where b.bum threw some light on that issue. (But I didn't reread the whole thing, so some of what I remember may be from a different thread.)
Yes -- this message covers the high level issues related to doing an exhaustive blocking scan-and-collect when memory runs low or, more specifically, out.
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2009/Jun//msg01630.html
b.bum
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