Minimize GC memory footprint

Max Haughton maxhaton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 11:55:43 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 30 January 2021 at 16:42:35 UTC, frame wrote:
> Is there a way to force the GC to re-use memory in already 
> existing pools?
>
> I set maxPoolSize:1 to gain pools that can be quicker released 
> after there no longer in use. This already reduces memory usage 
> to 1:3. Sadly the application creates multiple pools that are 
> not necessary in my POV - just fragmented temporary slice data 
> like from format(). What can I do to optimize?

I can't tell you much about the inner workings of the GC, but 
maybe take a look at experimental.allocator and see if anything 
there can help you (specifically that you understand your program 
better than the GC)


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