Was just playing around with a Motoko playground example and before deploying it to the IC I received two options for the garbage collector (GC) strategy, copying or marking GC. [Screen Shot 2022-05-15 at 09.57.21] I’m assuming copy refers to the mark-copy GC and mark refers to the mark-sweep GC. …

How should Motoko developers think about garbage collection on the IC and how can we use it to our benefit in terms of message throughput performance, memory allocation, and cycle management with respect to storage costs? Roughly, the cost of copying GC depends on the size of the actively used m…

Garbage collection when using the Motoko Playground

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chenyan July 27, 2022, 9:50pm 9

This seems to work:

  "defaults": {
    "build": {
      "packtool": "",
      "args": "--force-gc"
    }
  },

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Garbage collection when using the Motoko Playground

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