Thanks to all who gave me answers. I have now a much clearer idea of the topic.
Sincerely yours,

François Béreux

francois bereux a écrit :

> <This question is not specific to OCaml, but rather to garbage
> collection.>
>
> I have a program (in Fortran90) that uses many (> 100.000) small lists
> of integers ( about 100 elements per list ). Each list is built
> incrementally => I allocate many small blocks. It appears that this
> leads to memory fragmentation. For instance, even though I deallocate
> all the lists, the memory used by the program does not seem to really
> decrease.
> My question is : does a garbage collector (for instance the one in
> OCaml) deal with this kind of issues ( defragmentation of the memory )
> in a situation similar to mine : many small lists of elements ?
>
> I apologize if this question is too much off-topic from the list.

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