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Explain in NEWS how to control garbage collector [#69] [ci skip]
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HenrikBengtsson committed May 22, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ o MEMORY: Added argument 'gc=FALSE' to all futures. When TRUE, the
garbage collector will run at the very end in the process that
evalutated the future (just before returning the value). This may
help lowering the overall memory footprint when running multiple
parallel R processes, e.g. plan(multiprocess, gc=TRUE).
parallel R processes. The user can enable this by specifying
plan(multiprocess, gc=TRUE). The developer can control this using
future(expr, gc=TRUE) or v %<-% { expr } %tweak% list(gc=TRUE).
o SPEEDUP: Significantly decreased the overhead of creating a future,
particularly multicore futures.

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