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<H1>Garbage collector scalability</h1>
In its default configuration, the Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector
is not thread-safe.  It can be made thread-safe for a number of environments
by building the collector with the appropriate
<TT>-D</tt><I>XXX</i><TT>-THREADS</tt> compilation
flag.  This has primarily two effects:
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<LI> It causes the garbage collector to stop all other threads when
it needs to see a consistent memory stat