[Caml-list] Jones' GC book up to date wrt Caml ?

[Caml-list] Jones' GC book up to date wrt Caml ?

[Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons]

    Bonjour,

After the thread on "slow arithmetics" of Caml, I have bought Richard
Jones' book on Garbage collection. It was first printed in 1996 and
reprinted in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004. It seems to have been
slightly revised a few times.

It mentions on chapter 8 "Doliguez-Leroy-Gonthier's replicating
collector" (1993, 1994) for Concurrent Caml Light. I was wondering if
it was up to date and if not where could I find more information on
caml's garbage collector to complete my readings.

        Diego Olivier

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Re: [Caml-list] Jones' GC book up to date wrt Caml ?

[Xavier Leroy]

> It mentions on chapter 8 "Doliguez-Leroy-Gonthier's replicating
> collector" (1993, 1994) for Concurrent Caml Light. I was wondering if
> it was up to date and if not where could I find more information on
> caml's garbage collector to complete my readings.

There is some material on Damien Doligez's page:

      http://cristal.inria.fr/~doligez/caml-guts/

The GC used in OCaml is an incremental (non-concurrent) variant of the
DLG concurrent collector.  The differences are described in Damien's
PhD thesis, section 7.4 (available from the Web page above).

- Xavier Leroy

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