Re: GC pros and cons
Re: GC pros and cons
- Subject: Re: GC pros and cons
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:24:34 -0500
On Jun 27, 2009, at 9:22 AM, WT wrote:
I'm curious now... Is that an "in principle" statement, or has it
happened to a project that you know of? If the latter, can you
elaborate a little on the nature of the project, as in what it was
about it that outran the gc?
This is well covered in the archives.
To summarize: if you have a tight loop that is allocating tons of
extremely short lived objects, you can get into a situation where the
collector can't keep up. This is largely fixed in Snow Leopard,
though it s still possible.
b.bum
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