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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
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On Monday 22 September 2008 08:51:03 Alan Schmitt wrote:
> On 21 sept. 08, at 23:41, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > The good news is that the parallel GC is coming along nicely and
> > this will be a solved problem before long... :-)
>
> I'd love to hear more about this. Could you develop?

Sure thing. I wrote to the guys doing this work a couple of times and they 
were very friendly. Apparently they are currently ironing out the last of the 
bugs before going public.

I don't think I am the only person struggling to contain my excitement. :-)

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e