[racket] Engineering Tradeoffs of ANF transforms and the Stateless Server

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Galler <lzgaller at optonline.net> wrote:
> I note that no one has discussed throwing a significant amount of physical
> memory at the problem.
>
> Empirically, is that because garbage-collection of a large heap creates its
> own performance problems?

Yes, GC pauses get annoying when the heap gets large. This can lead to
timeouts on the client side.

Cheers,
N.