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Re: garbage collection pauses: too long for a game?

hjstein@bfr.co.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes:

> I wrote a tetris program in scheme (stetris) using STk. The GC pauses
> were somewhat annoying until I a) increased the initial heap size (to
> make GC less frequent)

Does this also make the pauses longer?

> and b) forced gc by executing (gc) at times when variable gc pauses
> weren't noticeable,

Does GC frequency have any effect on the length of the pauses?

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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@stekt.oulu.fi>, http://stekt.oulu.fi/~tosi/