From: Na Na <lists@...>
Date: 2013-01-14T08:48:09+09:00
Subject: Garbage Collection and Fibers

Hi,

I've been having an issue with my program running slow at points where
it really just shouldn't.  I've finally determined (I think) that the
culprit is actually garbage collection being called.

I want to have more control over GC.  However, the problem is, I suspect
that later on it could take 1 second or longer each time it runs, and I
can't have my program being blocked for that long.  One option is that I
could put GC in a separate thread (I haven't tested whether this will
cause stability issues).  Another, I wondered, is whether or not GC
could be called in a fiber somehow so that its execution load can be
stretched out over 5 seconds or so as I deem appropriate?

Other things I'll be doing will be seeing if I can find ways to reduce
the number of objects I am creating, but I suspect that I will need to
look at the above kinds of improvements even after this.

Thanks!

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