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From: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: "'Richard W.M. Jones'" <rich@annexia.org>,
	"'Gabriel Scherer'" <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Tom Ridge'" <tom.j.ridge+list@googlemail.com>,
	"'caml-list'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Question about garbage collection and impact on performance
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 02:25:16 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <089e01cefebd$0e12f300$2a38d900$@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131219224727.GA14006@annexia.org>

Richard Jones wrote:
> > My personal impression is that the question is not that well-posed:
> > - if you assume infinite memory, you don't actually need a GC (and for 
> > any input you can tweak the GC setting to make sure no collection 
> > happens)
>
> How could "infinite" memory be implemented without affecting the runtime
of programs on such a machine?

I guess O(1) lookup would actually be O(n^(1/3)) due to that speed of light
thing. ;-)

Cheers,
Jon.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-22  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-04 12:20 Tom Ridge
2013-12-04 12:43 ` Malcolm Matalka
2013-12-04 13:48 ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-12-19 22:47   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-12-22  2:25     ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2013-12-22  3:04       ` David Sheets
2013-12-22 12:43         ` Jeff Schultz
2013-12-22 10:41       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-12-04 18:09 ` Jon Harrop
2013-12-05  1:09 ` Jacques Garrigue
2013-12-05 10:08   ` Tom Ridge
2013-12-05 10:37     ` Malcolm Matalka
2013-12-05 10:48     ` Michael Hicks
2013-12-05 11:21       ` Tom Ridge
2013-12-05 21:09       ` Jon Harrop

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