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Revert "Track GC work for all managed bigarray allocations (upstream …#580

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Revert "Track GC work for all managed bigarray allocations (upstream …#580
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@lpw25 lpw25 commented Mar 16, 2022

…11022) (#569)"

This reverts commit 86fa893 from the 4.12 release branch.

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lpw25 commented Mar 17, 2022

For the curious, the reverted patch was causing large slow downs in some programs. This is because it speeds up the GC every time a subarray of a bigarray is taken even though the amount of memory managed by the GC has not increased.

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