[m-rev.] for review: add --boehm-gc-free-space-divisor option

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Peter Wang wrote:

> On 2008-07-15, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Peter Wang wrote:
>>>
>>> @sp 1
>>> + at item --boehm-gc-free-space-divisor=@var{N}
>>> + at findex --boehm-gc-free-space-divisor=@var{N}
>>> +This option sets the value of the free space divisor in the Boehm garbage
>>> +collector to @var{N}. The default value is 3. Increasing its value will reduce
>>> +heap space but increase collection time.
>>
>> It will actually increase the heap space _available to the program will
>> it not?  (At least that's the impression I received from the Boehm GC
>> docs.)
>
> Not sure what you mean.  To my knowledge, it just changes when the
> collector decides to expand the heap.  Smaller heap => more full heap,
> more collections.

Ok.

Julien.
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