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The overhead caused by managing the memory pools and constantly scanning the heap (mark/reap) can be examined by modifying the naGC_get() function such that it no longer uses any pool memory, but directly allocates malloc()/naAlloc() - without ever freeing any memory (i.e. leaking). While the fgfs process will eventually get killed this way, the GC will be basically switched off. | The overhead caused by managing the memory pools and constantly scanning the heap (mark/reap) can be examined by modifying the naGC_get() function such that it no longer uses any pool memory, but directly allocates via malloc()/naAlloc() - without ever freeing any memory (i.e. leaking). While the fgfs process will eventually get killed this way, the GC will be basically switched off. | ||
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