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Re: Timing of garbage collectionby Anonymous Monk |
on Jan 19, 2013 at 18:37 UTC ( [id://1014227]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Also, regardless of the "memory size" reported, unused virtual-memory pages will wander out to the backing-store and stay there, courtesy of the operating system, and the real page-frames will be used by someone else who needs them.
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