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For the author, some definitions: GC? -- Maybe "Garbage Collection", i.e., have some memory (mainly computer main memory) allocated, don't need it (just now or forever), and want to release it, i.e., no longer have it allocated for its original purpose. By releasing can make it available for other purposes, software threads, programs, virtual machines, etc. DATAS? -- Not a spelling error or about any usual meaning for data and instead is as in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/garbage-co... for "Dynamic adaptation to application sizes" So, we're trying to take actions over time in response to some inputs that are in some respects unpredictable. Okay, what is the objective, i.e., the reason, what we hope to gain, or why bother? And for the part that is somewhat unpredictable over time, that's one or more stochastic processes (or one multidimensional stochastic process?). So, in broad terms, we are interested in stochastic optimal control. "Dynamic adaptation", is close and also close to one method, dynamic programming -- in an earlier thread at Hacker News, gave a list of references. Confession, wrote my applied math Ph.D. dissertation in that subject. Hmm, how to proceed??? Maybe, (A) Know more about the context, e.g., what the computer is doing, what's to be minimized or maximized. (B) Collect some data on the way to knowing more about the stochastic processes involved. For me, how to get paid? If tried to make a living from applied stochastic optimal control, would have died from starvation. Got the Ph.D. JUST to be better prepared as an employee for such problems and had to learn that NO one, not even one in the galaxy, cares as much as one photon of ~1 Hz light. So, am starting a business heavily in computing and applied math. The code from Microsoft tools is all in .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc. Code runs fine. The .NET software, via the VB.NET syntactic sugar, is GREAT for writing the code. So, MUST keep up on Microsoft tools, and here just did that. Since .NET 10 is changing some versions of Windows, my reaction is (i) add a lot of main memory until GC is nearly irrelevant, (ii) in general, wait a few years to give Microsoft time to fix problems, i.e., usually be a few years behind the latest versions, i.e., to "Prepare for .NET 10", first wait a few years. Experience: At one time, saw some server farms big on reliability. One site had two of everything, one for the real work and another to test the latest for bugs before being used for real work. Another had their own electrical power, Diesel generators ~30 feet high, a second site duplicating everything, ~400 miles away, with every site with lots of redundancy. In such contexts, working hard and taking risks trying to save money on main memory seem unwise. |