Re: es memory requirements

[Paul Haahr <haahr@mv.us.adobe.com>]

well, the real problem (dramatically different resident set sizes) is going to  
need some study, but...

> When would you expect "the next time a collection is done" to happen?  I'm
> thinking perhaps, if I could induce a collection at certain points, things
> might improve.

that's pretty easy.  we'll probably introduce a $&collect primitive which  
calls the collector and returns.  (if you want to hand carve one, just call  
the function gc() from the primitive and return true.  that should be  
sufficient.)