> I've worked a lot with LispWorks and tuning the gc had the same method of programmatically calling a full GC after every N operations.
What is "full GC", here? Do you mean, even the "older" generations? (Assuming Lispworks also has generational GC a la sbcl)
In other words, Would it have helped if the implementation was a mark-compact rather than generational?
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/LW/html/lw-712.h...
with the full set to nil.
> I've worked a lot with LispWorks and tuning the gc had the same method of programmatically calling a full GC after every N operations.
What is "full GC", here? Do you mean, even the "older" generations? (Assuming Lispworks also has generational GC a la sbcl)
In other words, Would it have helped if the implementation was a mark-compact rather than generational?