id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1737,Timing of GC runs,nwellnhof,,"Currently, a GC run is triggered after 1MB of headers newly allocated (GC_SIZE_THRESHOLD). Similarly for buffers. This causes memory allocation to get slower the more memory a process consumes. Attached is patch that sets this threshold dynamically to half of the memory currently used, so the amortized cost of memory allocations stays roughly constant.

On my machine, a test script creating a hash with a million strings now completes in 1.0 seconds instead of 2.7 before. Inserting two million strings takes 2.0 seconds instead of 8.7.",patch,closed,normal,,GC,2.6.0,medium,fixed,,,,,