From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: "Seth J. Fogarty" <sfogarty@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Memory usage/ garbage collection question
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:27:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051014102749.GA15524@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7ee61120510140258q5b7f393l8e3c2c3d45f49008@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:58:59AM -0500, Seth J. Fogarty wrote:
> I do not see why iterating through a list that consumed a lot of
> memory should (innately) cause you to thrash. What is thrashing?
> access to the disk? Garbage collection?
That's where I'm not really sure, except that it is observably
thrashing. Since it's a simple iteration, I guess that would
implicate the GC?
> No, because you have bound rows to a name. Now, I believe if rows is
> returned by a function, and is NOT bound by name in that function, it
> can be garbage collected. I.E.
Ah OK ... I'm interested though: why does binding a value to a name
cause problems? Surely at this level (ocamlopt generated code) there
ought to be no difference between a named value and an unnamed one?
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-14 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-14 9:49 Richard Jones
2005-10-14 10:02 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2005-10-14 10:08 ` Olivier Andrieu
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2005-10-14 10:27 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-10-14 10:51 ` Frederic van der Plancke
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2005-10-14 9:36 yoann padioleau
2005-10-14 10:10 ` Richard Jones
2005-10-14 10:07 ` Gerd Stolpmann
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