Re: Guile GC behaviour

[Christian Lynbech <chl at tbit dot dk>]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

Greg> What will happen if GCing is turned off (and heap expansion is disabled)
Greg> and the heap runs out of space?

You should not turn gc off, guile would not survive long without it. 

However, the allocation of new heap segments is kind of orthogonal to
the gc process itself. The process goes something like this: when gc
is finished it estimates the fraction of the heap cleared up. If this
is too small, a new heap segment is allocated. 

If no new heap segments are ever allocated, execution (and gc) would
proceed until the existing heap runs full (in which case guile
probably rolls over and dies).


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