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Does the gc avoid collecting arrays of ints

Till Varoquaux
- Jon Harrop
  - Till Varoquaux
    - Xavier Leroy

Date:	2007-08-05 (16:07)
From:	Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@i...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Does the gc avoid collecting arrays of ints

For the record:

> I thought OCaml did not have an incremental GC, and that minor and
> major collections were both atomic.

The major collector is incremental: a slice of major GC is performed
at every minor GC.  If it weren't the case, you'd see big pauses at
major GC time.

- Xavier Leroy