[MLton] GC help

Umut Acar umut.research@gmail.com
Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:08:29 -0500


In my experiments, I could not grow the heap size more than ~2 Gigs. 
This is on a G5 (running Mac OS X) though.

Umut

On 8/14/05, Stephen Weeks <sweeks@sweeks.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
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