From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: 'Gabriel Scherer' <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>,
'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 10:41:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131222104143.GG3162@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <089e01cefebd$0e12f300$2a38d900$@ffconsultancy.com>
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 02:25:16AM -0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> 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. ;-)
Right. Or if the memory requirement got really big, you'd
have to have a man to run around fetching tapes from a big
warehouse, which doesn't sound very O(1) to me ..
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-22 10:41 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
2013-12-22 3:04 ` David Sheets
2013-12-22 12:43 ` Jeff Schultz
2013-12-22 10:41 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
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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