As Motoko is a language with a garbage collector - how does the GC determine when to execute?
From current observations (sample application below, and liberal use of dfx call and htop :P) it seems to only run between invocations of public functions, and never during - even if the amount of piled up garbage causes the call to abort due to exceeding what I assume is the WASM container exceeding its 4GB memory limit (Canister ... trapped: heap out of bounds).
Is this observation correct, or was memory allocation in this case simply too fast for the GC to keep up? The lack of a ‘sleep’ command didn’t allow me to test that hypothesis.
import Array "mo:base/Array";
import Iter "mo:base/Iter";
actor {
public query func gcTest() : async () {
// 1000 arrays of 1MB each for a total of 1GB memory
for (i in Iter.range(1, 1_000)) {
allocArray();
};
};
func allocArray() {
// Each one of these will be 1MB
var ary : [var Word8] = Array.init<Word8>(1_000_000, 0xFF);
};
};
