Re: [Caml-list] Storing ocaml values outside ocaml's heap

[William Le Ferrand <William.Le-Ferrand@polytechnique.edu>]

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Ok thanks. I'll have a very close look at it very soon and hopefully
integrate it on www.besport.com backend then :)

Many thanks to all of you

Best

William

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> I think Ancient is exactly what you're looking for.
>
> Just disable swap (which you should do anyway on a big modern server), and
> it will let you keep in-memory, out-of-heap OCaml values that don't get
> scanned by the GC.
>
> Anil
>
> On 8 Dec 2011, at 08:19, William Le Ferrand wrote:
>
> hi Stephane
>
> Yes, but it's not exactly what we're looking for : we plan to access the
> data at a (very) high rate, so swapping/unswapping would probably kill the
> performance ..
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:
>
>> Le 08/12/2011 05:35, William Le Ferrand a écrit :
>> > We are building a cache in ocaml and we're wondering if it would make
>> > sense to store ocaml values outside the reach of the gc. (gc on a 20GB
>> > cache hangs the process for a second or so).
>>
>> Have you heard of the ancient [1] library?
>>
>> [1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-ancient.git;a=summary
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Stéphane
>>
>>
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