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From: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: How to re-implement the GC?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:57:26 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrni8rmb6.skq.sylvain@gallu.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiktq35R+i1ScFd4Nvrhd=VWRbUQOP+9mzjPgoSs@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 13-09-2010, Eray Ozkural <examachine@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> What exactly are the requirements for substituting the current GC with
> another, preferably non-locking, GC? Any pitfalls I wouldn't see just
> reading the code?
>

The GC is deeply interacting with the the rest of the compiler. I think
you will spend a lot of time on this task.

I would recommend you trying OC4MC, which is probably what you are
looking for:
http://www.algo-prog.info/ocmc/web/

They show quite interesting results using Thread at the last OCaml
Meeting, though they are still some bugs (almost linear speed-up with
multicore).

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13  6:29 Eray Ozkural
2010-09-13  7:57 ` Sylvain Le Gall [this message]
2010-09-13 12:02   ` [Caml-list] " Eray Ozkural
2010-09-13 12:22     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-09-13 14:14       ` [Caml-list] " Eray Ozkural
2010-09-13 14:29         ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-09-13 21:25           ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2010-09-13 21:25         ` Jon Harrop
2010-09-13 21:47           ` Eray Ozkural

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