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