From: Mike C. <MF...@uk...> - 2009-03-30 12:05:01
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> The results were somewhat surprising. First of all, the performance > was noticeably worse. The interpreter was essentially in a continuous > state of garbage collection. AND, on top of that, it ran out of > memory at 4.75Mb rather than 7.5Mb. I tried this using multipliers of > 2x, 3x, 4x. The bigger the multiplier, the worse the performance when > things crossed the tipping point. All of these end of giving out of > memory in the same area. Well, thanks for trying! Wonders .. could the heap conglomerate adjacent pieces of storage as they're released (I have no idea of the internals of ooRexx)? Mike Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU |