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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: ACL and low-level GC
Date: 1998/12/19
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* David Bakhash <cadet@bu.edu>
| Though I don't know the internals of ACL nearly as well as you,

  I have only read the excellent manuals.

| I have noticed that the two global GCs in a row (after allocating that 18
| meg block) are _both_ pretty slow.  This implies that the 2nd GC was
| spending significant time in that block, even though it had been GC'd
| just before.

  I thought you said you had deleted the object and two global GC's in a
  row were still pretty slow?  I can't reproduce that.  global GC takes the
  same time no matter how much free space there is in the old space.

#:Erik
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