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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2018-01-16 15:14:45 +0100
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2018-01-16 15:24:50 +0100
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stdlib: Garbage the shell's evaluator process more often
A minor fix. If the Erlang shell saves no results (history(0) or results(0)), the evaluator process now garbage collects itself. This means that any huge binaries created by the evaluation are reclaimed faster than before.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/src/shell.erl')
-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/src/shell.erl6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/shell.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/shell.erl
index 212b143b1d..ad4984b64c 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/shell.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/shell.erl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
%%
%% %CopyrightBegin%
%%
-%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2017. All Rights Reserved.
+%% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2018. All Rights Reserved.
%%
%% Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
%% you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -701,7 +701,9 @@ exprs([E0|Es], Bs1, RT, Lf, Ef, Bs0, W) ->
{W,V0};
true -> case result_will_be_saved() of
true -> V0;
- false -> ignored
+ false ->
+ erlang:garbage_collect(),
+ ignored
end
end,
{{value,V,Bs,get()},Bs};