From: "John F. Carr" <jfc@MIT.EDU>
To: Raoul Duke <raould@gmail.com>
Cc: OCaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] concurrent gc?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:05:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21456.19915.45180.915211@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ7XQb7DzUkH0TzB1rSkDpw5e_KdyXSqZLMnfYWa_y3X9mqsYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Most programs spend a minority of their time in garbage collection.
Even if the new GC thread did not slow down the main program,
possible speedup would be less than 2x, probably well under 50%.
For technical reasons, offloading major collections in OCaml is easier
than offloading minor collections, so the potential benefit is less.
> extremely clueless question warning, both generally technically but
> also vis-a-vie ocaml specifically:
>
> so even if ocaml can't so easily be made to support multiple threads
> of ocaml code, could the gc be moved off to another thread? so that it
> could run on another core. would that be of any benefit?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 23:34 Raoul Duke
2014-07-24 0:05 ` John F. Carr [this message]
2014-07-24 0:08 ` Raoul Duke
2014-07-24 0:44 ` John F. Carr
2014-07-24 0:45 ` Raoul Duke
2014-07-24 15:24 ` Shayne Fletcher
2014-07-24 3:45 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-07-24 5:58 ` Anthony Tavener
2014-07-28 11:20 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-24 6:58 ` Nicolas Boulay
2014-07-24 7:38 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-07-24 15:36 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2014-07-24 15:39 ` Malcolm Matalka
2014-07-24 16:44 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2014-07-25 7:18 ` Nicolas Boulay
2014-07-28 11:26 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-28 11:24 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-28 17:34 ` Raoul Duke
2014-07-29 4:25 ` Gabriel Scherer
2014-07-29 4:49 ` ygrek
2014-07-29 10:01 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-29 10:29 ` ygrek
2014-07-31 11:10 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2014-07-29 17:23 ` Raoul Duke
2014-12-19 0:58 ` Jon Harrop
2014-07-31 14:26 ` Richard W.M. Jones
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