[m-dev.] Measure time spent by runtime garbage collector

[Ralph Becket]

Quan Phan, Thursday,  4 October 2007:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I measure the runtime spent by a runtime garbage collector while
> running a Mercury program? More specific is by the Boehm collector when
> the program is compiled in asm_fast.gc grade?

You can prevent the Boehm GC from collecting by running you program with
the environment variable GC_DONT_GC defined (although the Boehm GC will
still be allocating as usual).

If you want to see how your program runs with no GC, compile your
program in a .none grade rather than a .gc grade.

-- Ralph

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