Module Core_kernel.Gc

Return the current values of the memory management counters in a stat record. This function examines every heap block to get the statistics.

Same as stat except that live_words, live_blocks, free_words, free_blocks, largest_free, and fragments are set to 0. This function is much faster than stat because it does not need to go through the heap.

Return (minor_words, promoted_words, major_words). This function is as fast at quick_stat.

The following functions return the same as (Gc.quick_stat ()).Stat.f, avoiding any allocation (of the stat record or a float). On 32-bit machines the int may overflow.

Note that minor_words does not allocate, but we do not annotate it as noalloc because we want the compiler to save the value of the allocation pointer register (%r15 on x86-64) to the global variable caml_young_ptr before the C stub tries to read its value.

This function returns major_words () + minor_words (). It exists purely for speed (one call into C rather than two). Like major_words and minor_words, major_plus_minor_words avoids allocating a stat record or a float, and may overflow on 32-bit machines.

This function is not marked [@@noalloc] to ensure that the allocation pointer is up-to-date when the minor-heap measurement is made.

Return the current values of the GC parameters in a control record.

set r changes the GC parameters according to the control record r. The normal usage is: Gc.set { (Gc.get()) with Gc.Control.verbose = 0x00d }

Trigger a minor collection.

Do a minor collection and a slice of major collection. The argument is the size of the slice, 0 to use the automatically-computed slice size. In all cases, the result is the computed slice size.

Do a minor collection and finish the current major collection cycle.

Do a minor collection, finish the current major collection cycle, and perform a complete new cycle. This will collect all currently unreachable blocks.

Perform a full major collection and compact the heap. Note that heap compaction is a lengthy operation.

Print the current values of the memory management counters (in human-readable form) into the channel argument.

Return the total number of bytes allocated since the program was started. It is returned as a float to avoid overflow problems with int on 32-bit machines.

keep_alive a ensures that a is live at the point where keep_alive a is called. It is like ignore a, except that the compiler won't be able to simplify it and potentially collect a too soon.

The policy used for allocating in the heap.

Adjust the specified GC parameters.

The Expert module contains functions that novice users should not use, due to their complexity.