From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:09:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv64fk67mh.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450EA25B.50505@imperium.ph>
>> The main cost of a concurrent GC is that the application code has to be
>> changed to cooperate with the GC.
> Frankly, I don't think so. Lorenz Huelsbergen and Phil Winterbottom
> implemented their VCGC algorithm [1] for the Limbo programming language
> under Inferno and for SMLNJ as well, and their use of that concurrent
> garbage collection algorithm required no changes to any Limbo or SMLNJ
> application code.
I meant *compiled* application code, of course. I.e. you can't change the
GC after compilation. Admittedly, the VCGC algorithm is sufficiently
non-intrusive on the mutator that it might be OK to pay its cost even
when not using the VCGC algorithm.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 15:40 Jim Battin
2006-09-14 17:04 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-14 21:00 ` Andrej Bauer
2006-09-15 11:36 ` Damien Doligez
2006-09-15 14:29 ` Yaron Minsky
2006-09-15 16:24 ` Mike Lin
2006-09-15 16:44 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-09-18 8:24 ` Hendrik Tews
2006-09-18 8:38 ` skaller
2006-09-18 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-18 13:23 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-18 13:42 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19 0:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-09-19 2:02 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19 9:19 ` Hendrik Tews
2006-09-15 20:26 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
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