[MLton] GC help

Stephen Weeks MLton@mlton.org
Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:21:00 -0700


> > BTW, what is the maximum heap size for MLton?
> 
> 4 gig (in practice probably a little less)

Thinking a bit more, the real limitation is that the MLton runtime
requires the heap to be contiguous.  Given address space fragmentation
due to where Linux puts stuff, that probably means the effective limit
is about 2G.