From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml garbage collector_S_
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:00:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902221400.58077.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090222112614.GA14473@philou.ch>
On Sunday 22 February 2009 11:26:14 Philippe Strauss wrote:
> Remembering other needs like a concurrent GC and the multicore GC project
> of the OSP 2008, does the idea of modifiying the GC of ocaml to make it a
> "pluggable" subsystem, with 3 runtimes you may choose from, the
> "traditional" GC, the "real-time, pool based", and the "concurrent" one
> sounds reasonable?
>
> Did this kind of need often pop-up in your mind?
Yes, although I have been considering what might be done with OCaml's
bytecode. Presumably it conveys all of the necessary information in a more GC
agnostic way already. Moreover, a JIT compiler built upon LLVM could easily
outperform the existing OCaml compilers.
You may be interested in these benchmark results I gathered for different VMs:
http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/mono-22.html
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-22 13:56 UTC|newest]
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2009-02-22 11:26 Philippe Strauss
2009-02-22 14:00 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2009-02-22 21:41 ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
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