On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 09:17 PM, Scott A Crosby wrote:

> Roughly, I profile it at:
>
>  Can GC 60mb in 170ms, or about 360mb (6m objects) in a second.

Hmm....  170 ms * 6 = 1020 ms, or about a second.  If these numbers are 
accurate, there doesn't seem to be any overall performance benefit from 
delaying the GC (apart from completely avoiding it in a specific period 
of time).  Or very likely I am missing something.

Marcel

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