From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC376BBBB for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:05:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ash25e.internode.on.net (ash25e.internode.on.net [203.16.214.182]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8EH5ABe027697 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:05:12 +0200 Received: from rosella (ppp14-47.lns2.syd7.internode.on.net [59.167.14.47]) by ash25e.internode.on.net (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k8EH4vHD034666; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:34:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from skaller@users.sourceforge.net) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection? From: skaller To: Jim Battin Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:04:57 +1000 Message-Id: <1158253497.24982.155.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45098BC6.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; scalable:01 threads:01 2006:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 doligez:01 garbage:01 caml-list:01 algorithms:03 concurrent:03 concurrent:03 suggests:04 parallel:05 parallel:05 thu:05 On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 10:40 -0500, Jim Battin wrote: > Prior to that, there appears to have been some > academic research regarding concurrent GC (Doligez, Leroy). There's some more recent stuff eg "Scalable Real-time parallel GC for SMP", Cheng (sorry lost the URL ..) which suggests an implementation for ML like language is quite possible. This paper describes an algorithms for *parallel* collection, not merely concurrent collection, that is, multiple threads (multiple CPUs) participating in the collection. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net