added new command line option heap_size_hint for greedy GC #45369
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The changes add a new command-line option
--heap_size_hint
for triggering aggressive garbage collection.The following code might be used for checking that option.
Memory consumption might be estimated with
% gtime --verbose usr/bin/julia memory_test.jl
:Use
time
for Linux andgtime
for MacOS.And, memory consumption after adding the hint
% gtime --verbose usr/bin/julia --heap-size-hint=100m memory_test.jl
: