GC_enable_incremental()

Thu Sep 9 16:48:00 GMT 2004

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>3) I'm not sure it would help that much, since most of the GC time
>in your context (tiny heap, I presume?) is probably spent tracing the
>huge root set, and that will still happen with the world stopped.
>There are plans to fix this, but it hasn't happened.
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I think most of the 57 msecs might be coming from the mechanism used to 
"stop the world", not the scanning of the root set. Is this possible?
I get the same results with a 4 megabyte heap as with a 32 mb heap, both 
lead to intermittent 57 msec delays.
Dick