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Simon Marlow authored
This allows the GC to use fewer threads than the number of capabilities. At each GC, we choose some of the capabilities to be "idle", which means that the thread running on that capability (if any) will sleep for the duration of the GC, and the other threads will do its work. We choose capabilities that are already idle (if any) to be the idle capabilities. The idea is that this helps in the following situation: * We want to use a large -N value so as to make use of hyperthreaded cores * We use a large heap size, so GC is infrequent * But we don't want to use all -N threads in the GC, because that thrashes the memory too much. See docs for usage.
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