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On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Yawar Amin wrote:

> Hi Juli, you can take a look at https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/understanding-the-garbage-collector.html for some explanations of the various knobs. Specifically, the in-text note sections (marked with the icon of two pages) give some helpful
> hints. The first one on the page is 'Setting the Size of the Minor Heap'.

Thanks for the pointer.

julia

> Regards,
>
> Yawar
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> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
>       Hello,
>
>       Is there any reasonable way to reduce the amount of garbage collection
>       activity in an OCaml program?  I see various knobs in the control
>       structure, but I don't know what the impact of changing the values would
>       be.
>
>       thanks,
>       juli
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