Giving instructions to the GC

Hi,

Is it possible to give instructions to the GC, such as "don't gc while
in this block" or "now is a good moment to GC"?

Thanks

Fernando,

> Is it possible to give instructions to the GC, such as "don't gc while
> in this block" or "now is a good moment to GC"?

Well you can't really turn it off completely. Some collection is
performed incrementally as the method stack frames collapse. Cycles
collection and finalization are deferred and performed by separate
processes.

What you can do, however, is force this latter type of GC to occur at a
"good moment" by executing:

MemoryManager current collectGarbage
        or
MemoryManager current compact

See the method comment in MemoryManager>>collectGarbage for details.

Best regards

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com

Andy Bower wrote:

> Well you can't really turn [GC] off completely. Some collection is
> performed incrementally as the method stack frames collapse.

Aha!  I've suspected for a while that the Dolphin GC wasn't using only the
"advertised" unsophisticated mark-n-sweep -- it keeps up with heavy loads much
to well for that to be entirely plausible...

    -- chris