Re: Garbage collector behaviour changed from 5.1 to 5.2

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
> <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > (In particular, with stepmul = maxint and pause = 0, the interpreter
> > should run a whole collection cycle for each single allocation ;)
> 
> With the test I posted stepmul = maxint and pause = 0 appears to cause
> a full collection every 50 allocations. Is that right?

Not exactly. I expected it to do a full collection every few
allocations. I am afraid stepmul = maxint may overflow on 32-bit
machines. I will check that.

-- Roberto