Re: [Caml-list] Real Time Ocaml

[Karl Zilles <zilles@1969.ws>]

Brian Hurt wrote:
> The only thing non-realtime in Ocaml is the garbage collection.  There are
> realtime garbage collectors, which do a certain amount of work every
> allocation, so that a) the cost of every allocation is constant (or close
> enough), and b) that all the work the collector ever needs to do is 
> distributed evenly among the allocations.  The current collector, while 
> perfect for non-realtime tasks (due to it's small average cost) is 
> horrible for realtime because of the huge difference between the common 
> case (5 instructions) and the worst case (mass collection)>

In a realtime garbage collector, how can you prove that you are freeing 
unused memory as fast as you allocate it?  In your attempt to put a 
boundry on time, doesn't it open up the possiblility that you might run 
out of space (even if your program has constant memory usage).

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