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Whippet GC notes on Guile, heuristics, and heap growth
wingolog: article: whippet lab notebook: guile, heuristics, and heap growth
The adaptive policy is the one I would like in the long term; it will grow the heap for processes with a high allocation rate, and shrink when they go idle. It is certainly an error to live-lock the process, hoping that some other thread mutates the graph in such a way to free up a suitable hole. I am optimistic though that I will be able to get precise tracing sometime soon, as measured in development time; the problem as always is fragmentation, in that I don’t have a hole in my calendar at the moment.
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