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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Performance-question
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:23:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802071623.54116.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE49CA70-EEE5-4B54-9595-FB41B69E8BFF@inria.fr>

On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:13:25 Damien Doligez wrote:
> More generally, I'm looking for (small) programs that exhibit this
> kind of behaviour: they call the compactor frequently and their memory
> usage grows without bound when the compactor is disabled.

The "n"th-nearest neighbor example from OCaml for Scientists is certainly very 
allocation intensive because it makes extensive use of the Set module:

  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/complete/

but I'm not sure that its memory use will grow unbounded if compaction is 
disabled though.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-07 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05 13:33 Performance-question Oliver Bandel
2008-02-05 13:51 ` [Caml-list] Performance-question Jon Harrop
2008-02-05 16:18   ` Oliver Bandel
2008-02-07 16:13 ` Damien Doligez
2008-02-07 16:23   ` Jon Harrop [this message]

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