From: "Nicolas Cannasse" <warplayer@free.fr>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>,
"Basile Starynkevitch [local]" <basile.starynkevitch@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: (GC issues) Alternative Bytecodes for OCaml
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:17:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001a01c48e93$af8d8280$0100a8c0@warp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040830122332.GA7426@bourg.inria.fr>
> No, Ocaml's major GC (the garbage collection of the old generation) is
> not conservative; it is precise (it knows exactly where the pointers
> are), but is an incremental mark&sweep - with occasionnal call to the
> compactor whichs compacts the whole heap (including old stuff) by
> moving values & updating pointers.
>
> So I don't think Ocaml's GC could be easily patched to have the old GC
> work conservatively - hence avoiding the requirement of telling the
> runtime what are the pointers (ie CAMLlocal* & CAMLparam* macros).
>
> (I'm not sure that Nicolas Cannasse uses the "conservative" word in
> the established sense of the GC experts - perhaps my previous
> explanations where not clear enough).
I'm sorry I was mistaken about the 'conservative' word correct usage.
Please replace "conservative" by "not moving pointers" in my previous email.
Nicolas
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Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-25 14:26 [Caml-list] " John Goerzen
2004-08-25 14:38 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-25 14:50 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 15:02 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-26 9:05 ` Raphael Montelatici
2004-08-26 13:20 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-26 13:30 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 14:55 ` Lars Nilsson
2004-08-25 15:06 ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 16:14 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-28 3:49 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 15:05 ` skaller
2004-08-25 15:21 ` Lars Nilsson
2004-08-25 15:22 ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 15:52 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 16:26 ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 16:40 ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 16:49 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2004-08-25 17:01 ` Jason Smith
2004-08-25 17:17 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 20:00 ` skaller
2004-08-25 15:23 ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-25 15:24 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-08-27 14:26 ` Daniel Ortmann
2004-08-27 14:44 ` skaller
2004-08-27 14:59 ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-25 15:35 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-25 16:00 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-25 15:40 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-27 17:55 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 18:37 ` skaller
2004-08-27 18:49 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 20:39 ` skaller
2004-08-27 20:56 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 22:05 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-27 23:15 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-31 11:10 ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-08-28 0:25 ` skaller
2004-08-28 9:35 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-28 9:50 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-28 10:41 ` skaller
2004-08-28 11:37 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-08-25 17:37 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-25 18:00 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-25 22:10 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-08-26 0:09 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-26 4:26 ` [Caml-list] bytecode and native code at once Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-26 9:55 ` skaller
2004-08-26 15:52 ` [Caml-list] " mikel
2004-08-26 17:09 ` Paul Snively
2004-08-26 17:31 ` mikel evins
2004-08-26 18:04 ` Paul Snively
2004-08-26 18:28 ` mikel evins
2004-08-26 21:15 ` skaller
2004-08-27 8:52 ` Keith Wansbrough
2004-08-27 15:39 ` David Brown
2004-08-27 15:48 ` mikel evins
2004-08-26 21:42 ` [Caml-list] Alternative Bytecodes for OCaml Michal Moskal
2004-08-27 9:38 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-27 13:09 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 13:44 ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-27 13:58 ` skaller
2004-08-27 20:48 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-27 21:03 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-08-30 16:40 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-27 19:49 ` Blair Zajac
2004-08-27 22:18 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-27 23:38 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-08-28 16:40 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-28 17:03 ` [Caml-list] (GC issues) " Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-28 20:45 ` [Caml-list] " Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-29 2:31 ` skaller
2004-08-29 5:04 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-29 12:58 ` John Goerzen
2004-08-29 15:06 ` Brian Hurt
2004-08-29 15:22 ` Radu-Mihail Obada
2004-08-29 10:12 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-30 12:23 ` Basile Starynkevitch [local]
2004-08-30 13:17 ` Nicolas Cannasse [this message]
2004-08-26 16:04 ` [Caml-list] " =?unknown-8bit?Q?=A3ukasz?= Dobrek
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