POLY(1)

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✨ POLY(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for the Poly/ML import program, from the General Commands Manual section. no cap, it's a whole vibe. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

polyimport — the Poly/ML import program. that's literally her whole job. she imports. she runs. she slays. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

polyimport importfile

like... that's it. one file. she's low maintenance fr. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so polyimport reads in a Poly/ML import file and then runs it. that's the tea. ☕

and where do these import files come from, you ask? bestie they're generated using the PolyML.exportPortable function. that's the plug. 🔌✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

okay so here's where it gets juicy. every single one of these, no skips. 🫶

  • -H size — sets the initial heap size. the size can be written as a number, and you can optionally stick K, M or G on the end for kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes. and if you give her nothing? if none of those letters show up? the number is taken as megabytes. yes really. default behavior, iconic. 💀
  • --minheap size — sets the minimum heap size. the heap will not shrink below this value. she said boundaries, and she meant it. 🚫
  • --maxheap size — sets the maximum heap size. the heap will not grow above this value. she's capping herself. self-awareness? we love to see it. ✋
  • --gcpercent percent — sets the target percentage of time that the code should spend in the garbage collector. the heap sizer will attempt to set the heap size to achieve this target, consistent with the minimum and maximum heap sizes given by the arguments, and also consistent with keeping paging under control. so many constraints bestie, and she's juggling all of them. multitasking queen. 🤹♀️💅
  • --gcthreads threads — sets the number of threads used in the parallel garbage collector. setting this to 1 forces the garbage collector to be single-threaded. and the value 0? that's the default, and it's taken to be the number of processors (cores) available. so 0 means "use everything you've got". main character energy honestly. 🔥
  • --debug options — set various debugging options for the run-time system. that's all she's giving us on this one, but go off. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ngl that's the whole page bestie, every flag accounted for, nothing left behind. iykyk. 🧚

Poly/ML Version 5.9.2, 2025 — mwah, that's the version and the date, periodt. 💜💖✨

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