Re: [gambit-list] Gambit is great: the manual should advertise better

On Feb 6, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Bill Richter wrote:

(time (pretty-print (Poly-first (D X)))) 998093 ms real time, 16.6 minutes 997940 ms cpu time (997840 user, 100 system) 3204 collections accounting for 365525 ms real time (365690 user, 30 system) 112648202368 bytes allocated 13318 minor faults 3 major faults

BTW can someone explain this figure, 112648202368 bytes allocated? Did I really use 112.6 gB? My machine "only" has 1 gB of memory.

Probably, yes. Each of the 3204 garbage collections collected on average about 30+ megabytes of data, which it could reuse until the next GC, etc. My guess is that if you doubled the amount of real memory to 2GB the number of collections would drop to a few hundred.

Brad