From: "Loup Vaillant" <loup.vaillant@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Faking concurrency using Unix forks and pipes
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:32:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6f9f8f4a0705300132l1bf8775dwedfceede50e34c54@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0705300130h3a536fb4hc6792afd61ee943b@mail.gmail.com>
2007/5/30, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
>
> > I'm having a look at it now. I had thought that it was an experimental version
> > of OCaml that with a concurrent GC but that seems to be completely wrong.
> >
> > Will OCaml have a concurrent GC in the future?
>
> How much does a concurrent GC actually buy in comparison to
> multiple processes each with their own GC and a robust way
> of passing data between processes?
>
As far as I know, the developement team had made it quite clear that
there will be no concurent GC (not in the near future, at least). The
main reason is performance loss.
(Sorry for the double post)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-30 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-30 3:42 Jon Harrop
2007-05-30 4:10 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-30 4:12 ` Jonathan Bryant
2007-05-30 9:45 ` Benedikt Grundmann
2007-05-30 7:02 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-05-30 7:31 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-30 16:22 ` David Teller
2007-05-30 7:34 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-05-30 8:02 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-30 8:13 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-30 8:30 ` Loup Vaillant
2007-05-30 8:32 ` Loup Vaillant [this message]
2007-05-30 8:50 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-30 12:13 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-30 8:54 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-30 9:56 ` Mattias Engdegård
2007-05-30 12:15 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-30 17:46 ` Pablo Polvorin
2007-05-30 19:14 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-30 7:13 ` Florian Hars
2007-05-30 11:31 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-05-30 8:40 ` Luc Maranget
2007-05-30 9:10 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-30 9:25 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-30 9:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-05-30 9:41 ` Joel Reymont
2007-05-30 16:05 ` David Teller
2007-05-30 9:21 ` Joel Reymont
2007-05-30 16:10 ` David Teller
2007-05-30 9:52 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-05-30 12:03 ` Richard Jones
2007-05-30 16:03 ` Granicz Adam
2007-05-30 22:09 ` Jon Harrop
[not found] <5F7D2956-2B0A-465A-8AC2-06D7EDC457F9@valdosta.edu>
2007-05-30 19:44 ` Fwd: " Jonathan Bryant
2007-05-30 19:57 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-05-30 20:05 ` Jonathan Bryant
2007-05-30 22:08 ` Jon Harrop
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