GC Threshold: What is it?

Nick Wellnhofer wellnhofer at aevum.de
Wed Sep 22 11:58:58 UTC 2010


On 22/09/2010 04:32, Jonathan Leto wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> --gc-threshold says it is a percentage, but the maximum value is 1000.
> What gives?

It's roughly the percentage of memory wasted relative to the amount 
needed, not to the total amount of memory. So it can be larger than 100%.

Nick


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