[M3devel] Am I experiencing garbage collection?

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:00:54PM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:23:24AM +1100, Tony Hosking wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That option @M3nogc -- do I put it on the command line when I execute?

Thanks.

Running
  ./LINUXLIBC6/Main @M3nogc
instead of 
  ./LINUXLIBC6/Main
gives me the same momentary gaps.  So if that's how you shut off the 
garbage collector, it's not the garbage collector.  Perhaps some other
process is stealing centiseconds now and then.

-- hendrik