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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
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Subject: Re: Finalisation in 2.02
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>From: Patrick Goldbronn - SYSCO <patrick.goldbronn@cea.fr>
>
>What's append when we change the finalization parameters values ?
>We alloc an object of type toto with 1,200 and another object toto with
>9,146
>
>It's the last number which is keep by GC (here 146) and erase previous
>value (200)
>The same with the pound (1 and 9) or they are adding -> 1+9 = 10 < 146 ?

Each pair of numbers is actually a rational number and they are added
together to tell the GC how advanced it should be into its cycle.

In your example, you get 1/200 + 9/146 = 973/14600, or about 6.6 %

-- Damien