On 2012-10-23, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> But cmucl with gencgc has a known issue where cmucl hangs on to
> garbage for way too long, but that's usually only with specialized
> arrays, which aren't being used in this test. The last time I saw
> this issue, I could work around it by setting the number of
> generations to 2 instead of the default 6.
I found a web page somewhere in the CMUCL docs which says that different
garbage collectors are used on different platforms. I'm working on an
x86 platform (Celeron specifically) so I gather a conservative GC is
employed, at least by default. Is there a way to change it to the exact
GC?
best
Robert Dodier