diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 925bacaeb..7139179bf 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@
     "autocomplete": "node ./scripts/updateAutocompleteDocs.js",
     "build_sicp_package": "./scripts/build_sicp_package.sh",
     "publish_sicp_package": "./scripts/publish_sicp_package.sh",
-    "benchmark": "jest --runInBand --testPathPattern='.*benchmark.*' --testPathIgnorePatterns='/dist/'",
-    "prepare": "husky install"
+    "benchmark": "jest --runInBand --testPathPattern='.*benchmark.*' --testPathIgnorePatterns='/dist/'"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/jest": "^29.0.0",
diff --git a/src/go-slang/ece.ts b/src/go-slang/ece.ts
index 0f7cf2f05..9065373aa 100644
--- a/src/go-slang/ece.ts
+++ b/src/go-slang/ece.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { PREDECLARED_FUNCTIONS, PREDECLARED_IDENTIFIERS } from './lib/predeclare
 import { Scheduler } from './scheduler'
 import { BuiltinOp, CallExpression, Instruction, NodeType, SourceFile } from './types'
 
-export function evaluate(program: SourceFile, slangContext: SlangContext): Value {
+export function evaluate(program: SourceFile, heapSize: number, slangContext: SlangContext): Value {
   const scheduler = new Scheduler(slangContext)
 
   const C = new Stack<Instruction | HeapAddress>()
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ export function evaluate(program: SourceFile, slangContext: SlangContext): Value
   // `SourceFile` is the root node of the AST which has latest (monotonically increasing) uid of all AST nodes
   // Therefore, the next uid to be used to track AST nodes is the uid of SourceFile + 1
   const A = new AstMap((program.uid as number) + 1)
-  const H = new Heap(A, scheduler)
+  const H = new Heap(A, scheduler, heapSize)
 
   // inject predeclared functions into the global environment
   const B = new Map<number, (...args: any[]) => any>()
diff --git a/src/go-slang/index.ts b/src/go-slang/index.ts
index 7f7df719c..77b2bc3eb 100644
--- a/src/go-slang/index.ts
+++ b/src/go-slang/index.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ import { resolvedErrorPromise } from '../runner'
 import { evaluate } from './ece'
 import { SourceFile } from './types'
 
-export async function goRunner(program: any, context: Context): Promise<Result> {
-  const value = evaluate(program as SourceFile, context)
+export async function goRunner(program: any, heapSize: number, context: Context): Promise<Result> {
+  const value = evaluate(program as SourceFile, heapSize, context)
   if (context.errors.length > 0) {
     return resolvedErrorPromise
   }
diff --git a/src/go-slang/lib/heap/config.ts b/src/go-slang/lib/heap/config.ts
index 9b3c8fe69..3117b51b3 100644
--- a/src/go-slang/lib/heap/config.ts
+++ b/src/go-slang/lib/heap/config.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 /* Set of default configurations for the heap used in the Go ECE */
 
-// The default size of the heap in words
-// Total heap size (in bytes) = DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE * WORD_SIZE
-export const DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE = 4096 // in words
-
 // The smallest addressable unit in the heap
 // We can think of it as the heap containing N number of words, each of size WORD_SIZE
 export const WORD_SIZE = 8 // in bytes
 
+// The default size of the heap in words
+// Total heap size (in bytes)
+export const DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE = 4096 * WORD_SIZE
+
 // The byte offset to the size of a heap object within a tagged pointer
 export const SIZE_OFFSET = 5 // in bytes
diff --git a/src/go-slang/lib/heap/index.ts b/src/go-slang/lib/heap/index.ts
index 218ca4497..f64240507 100644
--- a/src/go-slang/lib/heap/index.ts
+++ b/src/go-slang/lib/heap/index.ts
@@ -52,14 +52,14 @@ export class Heap {
   // NOTE: this is hacky and should be refactored
   private scheduler: Scheduler
 
-  constructor(astMap: AstMap, scheduler: Scheduler, n_words?: number) {
+  constructor(astMap: AstMap, scheduler: Scheduler, heapSize: number = DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE) {
     this.astMap = astMap
     this.scheduler = scheduler
 
-    const totalBytes = (n_words ?? DEFAULT_HEAP_SIZE) * WORD_SIZE
-    this.memory = new DataView(new ArrayBuffer(totalBytes))
+    console.log(`[Heap]: Initializing heap with size ${heapSize} bytes.`) // DEBUG
+    this.memory = new DataView(new ArrayBuffer(heapSize))
 
-    const buddyAllocSize = Math.ceil(Math.log2(totalBytes))
+    const buddyAllocSize = Math.ceil(Math.log2(heapSize))
 
     this.buddyBlocks = Array.from({ length: buddyAllocSize + 1 }, () => new Set())
     // initialize the block with the maximum size (= size of the entire heap)
@@ -382,11 +382,14 @@ export class Heap {
         }
       }
 
+      let _totalFreedWords = 0 // DEBUG
       this.buddyBlockMap.forEach((_, addr) => {
         if (!activeHeapAddresses.has(addr) && this.tag(addr) !== PointerTag.AstNode) {
+          _totalFreedWords += this.size(addr) + 1
           this.buddyFree(addr)
         }
       })
+      console.log(`[Heap]: GC freed ${_totalFreedWords * WORD_SIZE} bytes of memory.`) // DEBUG
 
       // retry allocation
       alloc_heap_addr = this.buddyAlloc((size + 1) * WORD_SIZE)
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index a590a1ec9..20345f196 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ export interface IOptions {
   executionMethod: ExecutionMethod
   variant: Variant
   originalMaxExecTime: number
+  heapSize: number
   useSubst: boolean
   isPrelude: boolean
   throwInfiniteLoops: boolean
@@ -234,7 +235,8 @@ export async function runFilesInContext(
     if (program === null) {
       return resolvedErrorPromise
     }
-    return goRunner(program, context)
+    const { heapSize } = options
+    return goRunner(program, heapSize!, context)
   }
 
   if (
diff --git a/src/runner/sourceRunner.ts b/src/runner/sourceRunner.ts
index ee6e6c085..17783e0d5 100644
--- a/src/runner/sourceRunner.ts
+++ b/src/runner/sourceRunner.ts
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ const DEFAULT_SOURCE_OPTIONS: Readonly<IOptions> = {
   executionMethod: 'auto',
   variant: Variant.DEFAULT,
   originalMaxExecTime: 1000,
+  heapSize: 32768,
   useSubst: false,
   isPrelude: false,
   throwInfiniteLoops: true,