From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0ACC7FA4D for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:34:24 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of raould@gmail.com) identity=pra; client-ip=209.85.219.47; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="raould@gmail.com"; x-sender="raould@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: domain of raould@gmail.com designates 209.85.219.47 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=209.85.219.47; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="raould@gmail.com"; x-sender="raould@gmail.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@mail-oa0-f47.google.com) identity=helo; client-ip=209.85.219.47; receiver=mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="raould@gmail.com"; x-sender="postmaster@mail-oa0-f47.google.com"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoABACyI1lPRVdsvm2dsb2JhbABZhDcEgnTQWwGBCQgWEAEBAQEBBgsLCRQphAQBAQMBEhEdARsdAQMMBgULDwImAgIiAREBBQEcBjWICwEDCQibGmqLKYFygxCKJQoZJw1khiMRAQUOgR6OIAeCeYFRAQSKcZBbkloYKYUaHS8 X-IPAS-Result: AoABACyI1lPRVdsvm2dsb2JhbABZhDcEgnTQWwGBCQgWEAEBAQEBBgsLCRQphAQBAQMBEhEdARsdAQMMBgULDwImAgIiAREBBQEcBjWICwEDCQibGmqLKYFygxCKJQoZJw1khiMRAQUOgR6OIAeCeYFRAQSKcZBbkloYKYUaHS8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,750,1400018400"; d="scan'208";a="73093475" Received: from mail-oa0-f47.google.com ([209.85.219.47]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 28 Jul 2014 19:34:23 +0200 Received: by mail-oa0-f47.google.com with SMTP id g18so9087137oah.34 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:34:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=FJIVehP8EbQ2oOMi0u5cfsRz/IIYd0vmXQf6q5jCdjk=; b=yGFZLxLMA/WmLPfshG8J60TzifwTOPSvYAUKcoU4jZONHeKgESn+raICQii24q1Qhd uC8qODeRsRnCCYG6I1yWjmr8nd//E+9mrORnwU/woLsdUez9GiK5hAyM2IwTex9IHWVC eQRwSWbfx+MMobYWUnjBXVBI9e9ZkwHxuqlcqmFI6NPN+F4uZ3U0fbPFrRJSA5UL3X89 FYEtcsm8iJBwVSUSbyktsE3S/peVbxWEox2jMfojbSuZm5ycgzNVh2KIMn40w8RpZeKg 46z/d4vMd/sBQjKp/06BEP/c/LFNMLLX1kHcdbmZB8eeGRaQDOtg6JI0GMlRs8BkufpT pu9w== X-Received: by 10.182.27.5 with SMTP id p5mr52064234obg.42.1406568862405; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:34:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.151.101 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140728112431.GC26816@frosties> References: <21456.19915.45180.915211@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20140728112431.GC26816@frosties> From: Raoul Duke Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:34:02 -0700 Message-ID: To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: OCaml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] concurrent gc? >> There are also other tricks such as changing the tag of a block to avoid >> scanning, but I wouldn't advise to use it unless you really know what you >> are doing... > That is actualy something that should be fixed in the compiler. There > are some special cases that use special tags, e.g. a record only > containing floats will be tagges as float array. But any record that > contains no pointers should be tagged so it isn't needlessly scanned. > Afaik that doesn't happen yet. anybody who understands those words willing to open a bug report on it? ;-)