Ok thanks. I&#39;ll have a very close look at it very soon and hopefully integrate it on <a href="http://www.besport.com">www.besport.com</a> backend then :)<div><br></div><div>Many thanks to all of you</div><div><br></div>

<div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>William<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:anil@recoil.org">anil@recoil.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">I think Ancient is exactly what you&#39;re looking for.<div><br></div><div>Just disable swap (which you should do anyway on a big modern server), and it will let you keep in-memory, out-of-heap OCaml values that don&#39;t get scanned by the GC.<div>

<br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Anil</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On 8 Dec 2011, at 08:19, William Le Ferrand wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">hi Stephane<div><br></div><div>
Yes, but it&#39;s not exactly what we&#39;re looking for : we plan to access the data at a (very) high rate, so swapping/unswapping would probably kill the performance .. </div>
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Stéphane Glondu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:steph@glondu.net" target="_blank">steph@glondu.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Le 08/12/2011 05:35, William Le Ferrand a écrit :<br>
<div>&gt; We are building a cache in ocaml and we&#39;re wondering if it would make<br>
&gt; sense to store ocaml values outside the reach of the gc. (gc on a 20GB<br>
&gt; cache hangs the process for a second or so).<br>
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</div>Have you heard of the ancient [1] library?<br>
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[1] <a href="http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-ancient.git;a=summary" target="_blank">http://git.annexia.org/?p=ocaml-ancient.git;a=summary</a><br>
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Stéphane<br>
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