From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Hendrik Tews <tews@cs.ru.nl>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:38:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158568734.15083.11.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wwubqpdr392.fsf@tandem.cs.ru.nl>
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:24 +0200, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> "Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu> writes:
>
> That said, I do understand that a concurrent GC is a big technical
> challenge, and I can understand why the ocaml team isn't eager to take it on
> right now.
>
> The ocaml team could document the GC interface and modularize
> everything, such that the user can choose between different
> garbage collectors (at compile time, or even better at
> application start).
I doubt this is possible with native code compilers.
AFAIK allocation, write barrier, and int/box flag bit handling
aren't modelled using standard C ABI calls?
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ 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 [this message]
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
2006-09-19 2:02 ` [Caml-list] " Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19 9:19 ` Hendrik Tews
2006-09-15 20:26 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
2006-09-15 20:16 Jonathan Bryant
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