Re: Eager garbage collection

[Spencer Baugh]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>The time to do a GC doesn't depend on the amount of garbage so much as
>the size of the heap, but I think I like your idea.  Better yet: keep
>track of the time that each GC takes and use that as a guide for the
>idle-time delay.

OK, I added an exponential-moving-average to track the time that GC
uses, and use it as the idle-time delay, with the idea that if we
reach idle time X, the naive best estimate of the total idle time is
2*X. See following patches.