* Set libgc's initial heap size to 384 MiB to prevent garbage
collection in most cases (and therefore its performance overhead).
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					@ -353,6 +353,18 @@ int main(int argc, char * * argv)
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    GC_INIT();
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					    GC_INIT();
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    GC_oom_fn = oomHandler;
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					    GC_oom_fn = oomHandler;
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					    /* Set the initial heap size to something fairly big (384 MiB) so
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					       that in most cases we don't need to garbage collect at all.
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					       (Collection has a fairly significant overhead, some.)  The heap
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					       size can be overriden through libgc's GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE
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					       environment variable.  We should probably also provide a
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					       nix.conf setting for this.  Note that GC_expand_hp() causes a
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					       lot of virtual, but not physical (resident) memory to be
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					       allocated.  This might be a problem on systems that don't
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					       overcommit. */
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					    if (!getenv("GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE"))
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					        GC_expand_hp(384000000);
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#endif
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					#endif
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    try {
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					    try {
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