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.
> 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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