What's the go with the GC these days?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-01-07 04:34, Walter Bright wrote:

> I use Thunderbird mail, latest version, and it has random pauses that 
> are up to 10 seconds. It'll happen when I'm in the middle of typing, 
> which is frustrating.
> 
> I'm not positive it is a GC pause, maybe it's something else, but the 
> randomness of it suggests it is GC.

For me it only happens when downloading new emails. Which suggests 
they're not using a separate thread for that. But that would be very 
poorly implemented.

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/Jacob Carlborg