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* Document Boehm GC support.

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Eelco Dolstra 2010-10-29 14:44:02 +00:00
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><envar>GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE</envar></term>
<listitem><para>If Nix has been configured to use the Boehm garbage
collector, this variable sets the initial size of the heap in bytes.
It defaults to 384 MiB. Setting it to a low value reduces memory
consumption, but will increase runtime due to the overhead of
garbage collection.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>