While it may not help you, ocamls GC only kicks off during an allocation so
you can at least construct an important section of code to not have a GC
occur in it.  But I don't think that would help for your situation.

Is your concern more general or do you have a specific situation?  Ime it
takes quite a but of work to cause a noticeable GC pause in ocaml.
Den 24 jul 2014 02:09 skrev "Raoul Duke" <raould@gmail.com>:

> > Most programs spend a minority of their time in garbage collection.
> > Even if the new GC thread did not slow down the main program,
> > possible speedup would be less than 2x, probably well under 50%.
>
> thanks! gotchya.
>
> I should have noted that my main concern is with pauses, not with
> overall speedup. In other words: in interactive apps, pauses are
> eeeeeevil.
>
> > For technical reasons, offloading major collections in OCaml is easier
> > than offloading minor collections, so the potential benefit is less.
>
> I am guessing you mean that major collections just don't happen that
> often, at least if people write their code in a non-pathalogical
> fashion? :)
>
> sincerely.
>
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