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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:09:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv64fk67mh.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450EA25B.50505@imperium.ph>

>> The main cost of a concurrent GC is that the application code has to be
>> changed to cooperate with the GC.

> Frankly, I don't think so.  Lorenz Huelsbergen and Phil Winterbottom
> implemented their VCGC algorithm [1] for the Limbo programming language
> under Inferno and for SMLNJ as well, and their use of that concurrent
> garbage collection algorithm required no changes to any Limbo or SMLNJ
> application code.

I meant *compiled* application code, of course.  I.e. you can't change the
GC after compilation.  Admittedly, the VCGC algorithm is sufficiently
non-intrusive on the mutator that it might be OK to pay its cost even
when not using the VCGC algorithm.


        Stefan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14 15:40 Jim Battin
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 [this message]
2006-09-19  2:02             ` Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19  9:19         ` Hendrik Tews
2006-09-15 20:26 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer

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