Re: Eager garbage collection

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>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.

The code is looking pretty good.  I have a few minor comments to make
about it, but the only significant one is that it's a bit more than what
we can consider as trivial.

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