Re: alien use causes gratuitous GC

Will wrote:
> --- Carl Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Without seeing your code it is hard to know what could be going wrong
>> for you.  Do you have a small test case that demonstrates the
>> excessive heap allocations in your application?
>>     
>
> Hi, Carl,
>
> That's certainly a reasonable question, but I'm afraid that I don't
> have a small test case. I would have to package up the foreign
> libraries and the Lisp interface code, which is idiosyncratic and
> complicated by the requirements of the C code. I don't know whether
> something similar would happen with a small C function that performs
> several callbacks, and I was wondering if this is a shared problem.
>
>   
If it's not too large, could you just send the Lisp callback routines?  
That should give some hints on what's happening even if we don't have 
the foreign libraries.

Ray