Re: hashtable-based marking and cleanups
Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
Yes, it does matter. It is usually allocated at the end of
the
memory, and since the gc only frees memory, if your malloc is any
decent, the virtual space is given back to the system when the final
free is done.
It somehow seems perverse to allocate almost as much memory as you are
using for the process of freeing up...
Jan