Re: Garbage Collection with 4 RAM (HELP!!)

[straz (Steve Strassmann)]

 >I am saving the application without the compiler.  But I was
 >wondering if there were any more memory-saving tricks I could
 >try, or if perhaps (!) there was some way to reduce the amount
 >of time spend garbage collecting. 

Try reading optimization-techniques.rtf, available from 
cambridge.apple.com:/pub/mcl/contrib/.

Garbage collecting only happens when you allocate new memory, using
functions like these, (or functions which call functions like these)

  cons
  list
  append
  make-instance
  vector
  make-array

If you don't allocate memory, the garbage collector will not run (nor
will there be any need for it to run).  Try to characterize and limit 
where your code makes such calls.

Also, you can make sure the ephemeral garbage collector is on with
 (egc t)