On 9/24/2011 6:11 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> I think the default settings of today's GCs are years-old, e.g. they kick in at only a couple of hundred megs. We should tune the GC to kick-in only at 2GB RAM RSS.
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The gc is the one used for dmdscript. It was tuned for minimizing memory consumption.

One easy test to make is to compare:

1. no gc (the old way)
2. gc with collecting turned off

That'll tell us if setting the kick-in high will make up the difference.