On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:13:25 Damien Doligez wrote:
> More generally, I'm looking for (small) programs that exhibit this
> kind of behaviour: they call the compactor frequently and their memory
> usage grows without bound when the compactor is disabled.

The "n"th-nearest neighbor example from OCaml for Scientists is certainly very 
allocation intensive because it makes extensive use of the Set module:

  http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/complete/

but I'm not sure that its memory use will grow unbounded if compaction is 
disabled though.

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