From: "Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Mismatch between Gc.full_major() documentation and behaviour
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 15:01:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A86239.30107@etorok.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A8508D.2050000@inria.fr>
On 12/11/2013 01:46 PM, Bertrand Jeannet wrote:
> According to the documentation, the sequence
> "Gc.major();Gc.full_major()" should be equivalent to
> "Gc.full_major()", as Gc.full_major() is told to terminate the
> current major gc and perform a complete new cycle.
They both perform a minor GC cycle too.
So you run a minor cycle twice with 'Gc.major(); Gc.full_major()', but only one with 'Gc.full_major()'.
>
> In my case it is not the case: "Gc.major(); Gc.full_major()" performs
> more calls to finalisation functions than "Gc.full_major()".
>
> My context: I use a weak hashtables containing finalised value (with
> Gc.finalise).
>
> The documentation of Weak module specifies that the finalization
> function is called after the weak hashtbl/array has been set to
> none.
>
> Does someone know the explanation of this ?
You can run 'Gc.print_stat stderr' to check how many GC minor/major cycles are run in both cases. The number of minor cycles should be different.
Best regards,
--Edwin
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