[MLton-devel] MM with two mlton apps

Stephen Weeks MLton@mlton.org
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:55:59 -0700


> My question was about the fact that in the old world, and I suspect that this
> is still true, you don't unmap the semi-space that is unused after a
> stop-and-copy gc.  

We do unmap the unused semispace if it is smaller than the one we are
now using, since we won't be able to use it for a GC next time
anyways.

> This would be a good thing to do if you were about to run
> another process and have the parent wait while it ran, freeing up more memory
> for it to use.

Agreed.  Pack will certainly do this.


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