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From: "Jim Battin" <jrbattin@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:40:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd3d4e9d0609140840t740eef5ey6eee999ebe6b42e5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

It seems Moore's law is taking us in the direction of more cores per
microprocessor with less effort placed on exploring ILP.  With the
advent of multi-core processors, and their inevitable ubiquity, are
there any plans, considerations, or ideas for a concurrent garbage
collector in Ocaml?

To my knowledge, Caml Light had a concurrent garbage collector under
development by Xavier Leroy but was abandoned due to significant
technical challenges.  Prior to that, there appears to have been some
academic research regarding concurrent GC (Doligez, Leroy).

Thanks,
Jim


             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14 15:40 Jim Battin [this message]
2006-09-14 17:04 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-14 21:00   ` Andrej Bauer
2006-09-15 11:36 ` Damien Doligez
2006-09-15 14:29   ` Yaron Minsky
2006-09-15 16:24     ` Mike Lin
2006-09-15 16:44       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2006-09-18  8:24     ` Hendrik Tews
2006-09-18  8:38       ` skaller
2006-09-18 13:09       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-18 13:23         ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-09-18 13:42         ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19  0:09           ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-19  2:02             ` [Caml-list] " Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19  9:19         ` Hendrik Tews
2006-09-15 20:26 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer

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