Yes, but it's not exactly what we're looking for : we plan to access the data at a (very) high rate, so swapping/unswapping would probably kill the performance ..

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> wrote:

Le 08/12/2011 05:35, William Le Ferrand a écrit :

> We are building a cache in ocaml and we're wondering if it would make
> sense to store ocaml values outside the reach of the gc. (gc on a 20GB
> cache hangs the process for a second or so).

Have you heard of the ancient [1] library?

[1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-ancient.git;a=summary

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