From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA10080 for caml-red; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 22:32:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09672 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:57:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e95IvbH15824 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:57:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from htec.demon.co.uk ([62.252.165.203]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001005185736.ZRPX19709.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@htec.demon.co.uk> for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:57:36 +0100 Message-ID: <39DCCF45.26D87B8B@htec.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 19:58:13 +0100 From: Chris Quinn X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0-test6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: ratio of heap size to live data in Caml GC? References: <200010032150.RAA26734@labrador.eecs.harvard.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr David Mentr=E9 wrote: > = > = > Damien Doligez, Xavier Leroy. "A concurrent, generational garbage > collector for a multithreaded implementation of ML". Proceedings POPL > 93. > http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/publi/concurrent-gc.ps.gz > = While the multiprocessor version went into in Caml Light 0.4 in '93, it d= oes mention in passing the cut-down uniprocessor algorithm as implemented= in Ocaml. = I found no mention of concurrency through the hump link to Caml Light, so= now I'm = wondering whether it still lives on in some other guise. It would be great to have it as a compilation option to Ocaml. So how about it...? :o) regards, chris