Hi,

I am trying to write a soft real time signal-processing application in
OCaml.  Running in a "simulation" mode, it spends no time blocking,
and uses an outermost loop that takes about 1/10 sec to run.  In order
to prevent irregular GC pauses, I decided to try inserting a call to
Gc.compact once per loop.  I was hoping the overall throughput
wouldn't suffer too badly.  To my very pleasant surprise, I found the
throughput *increased* by about 2%!!  So in a 15 second run (with no
idle time, as I said), it now does about 130 heap compactions instead
of 3 and gets better total performance because of it, utterly defying
my GC intuition.

 - Aaron