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From: jr@petz.han.de (Joerg Rade)
Subject: Re: [Q] Install GNU-Smalltalk: copied space =23.6% ???
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 1994 11:02:56 GMT
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Xiaoning Wang (wang@cteq11.msu.edu) wrote:
:  Hi, I am trying to install GNU-smalltalk in NeXT workstation, 
:  everything seems OK, except at last I get :
:  "GC flipping to space 1...copied space = 23.6%...done"
:  instead of "GC flipping to space 1...copied space = 100.0%...done" as said
:  in the installation guide.

'100%' is a documentation bug, the number you get is correct.

:  But what doesn't that 23.6% means ?

It's the relation of non-garbage objects to the size of available
memory (one semispace) after garbage collection.

-j|g
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