Hello, I’m new to Julia. I ran my code and timed it using @time . The results show that gc time is 67.2%. From what I’ve seen in other threads, this is a high figure and is a drag on performance. However, it is unclear to me (even after reading the documentation) what garbage collection is, what the…

Garbage collection is how memory is recovered from your program. It is a form of automatic memory management: languages like python, r and Java also have automatic memory management. Without it you need to make explicit calls in your code to tell the operating system you are done using memory. Lang…

Garbage collection

New to Julia

Tamas_Papp June 15, 2020, 10:41am 2

It would be much easier to help if you provided an MWE.

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