[M3devel] Am I experiencing garbage collection?

[Tony Hosking]

It is possible that you are experiencing delays, though I am surprised  
that you have user-noticeable delays.  Do you have a demo I can try?   
You could also try turning of GC (@M3nogc) and see if the delays are  
no longer there.

On 26 Mar 2009, at 01:08, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> I'm working on a pixel-based image edotor with variable-sized pixels.
> (That weirdness was the one of the simplest things that could possibly
> work for an esoteric application.)
>
> I implemented mouse-tracking according to instructins in the Trestle
> manual, and it works, except for small gaps that occur every few
> seconds.  They correspond to mouse-deafness intervals of maybe a
> hundredth or a twentieth of a second or so.
>
> But in the course of building my pizel map, I find myself allocating
> storage dynamically.  Could I be experiencing garbage-collection  
> delays?
>
> -- hendrik