partcl pmc usage.

Will Coleda will at coleda.com
Thu Jan 1 01:02:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Will Coleda <will at coleda.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Will Coleda <will at coleda.com> wrote:
>> So, doing mostly nothing, our PMC usage is increasing by 17 just from
>> doing a say (you can verify that it's the say by doubling up on the
>> each opcode; calling interpinfo 2x results in the same output; calling
>> say twice doubles each number, and causes the difference to go to 34
>> when it does change.)
>
> Whoops. Didn't test this, but just verified; see the same 17 pmc bump
> even doing a 'collect' before each interpinfo.
>

... Which, as chromatic points out, doesn't mean anything, since
'sweep 1' is what gets rid of dead PMCS, not "collect". putting 'sweep
1' before each interpinfo /does/ cause the count to stay down.

Back to the drawing board.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda


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