You see, the Caml garbage collector is like a god from ancient mythology: mighty, but very irritable. If you mess with it, it'll make you suffer in surprising ways.

— Xavier Leroy, Post to the Caml mailing list (2009)

Source: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.general/47389

From a 2007 post to the Caml mailing list.

Topics: programming