From: "Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla" <dido@imperium.ph>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:42:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450EA25B.50505@imperium.ph> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvenl2uhi.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The main cost of a concurrent GC is that the application code has to be
> changed to cooperate with the GC.
Frankly, I don't think so. Lorenz Huelsbergen and Phil Winterbottom
implemented their VCGC algorithm [1] for the Limbo programming language
under Inferno and for SMLNJ as well, and their use of that concurrent
garbage collection algorithm required no changes to any Limbo or SMLNJ
application code.
[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/lorenz/papers/ismm98.pdf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ 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
2006-09-18 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-18 13:23 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-18 13:42 ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla [this message]
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
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