Jacques Garrigue wrote:

 >>> means that the memory set should not increase. But with external data
 >>> structures like pixbufs, the GC is called in a pre-programmed way,
 >>> currently at least after every 10 pixbuf allocations.
 >> You mean that LablGTK directly invokes the garbage collector after 
10 images. That's not much (unless, of course, they are big images). 
Sounds like it's a lot of trouble for a small benefit.
 >
 > Again, the trouble is that there is only one allocation function for
 > pixbufs, and it doesn't look at their size. And it isn't aware of how
 > much memory is available either. So the choice was to be extremely
 > conservative.

I'm sorry. I meant that my notion of preloading images would be a lot of 
trouble for a small benefit. I don't have sufficient expertise to judge 
your garbage collection strategy.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation.

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