From: Hendrik Tews <tews@cs.ru.nl>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:19:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wwueju8fc21.fsf@tandem.cs.ru.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvenl2uhi.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:09:21 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The ocaml team could document the GC interface and modularize
> everything, such that the user can choose between different
> garbage collectors (at compile time, or even better at
> application start).
The main cost of a concurrent GC is that the application code has to be
changed to cooperate with the GC. So if you want to be able to use the same
application code for both the concurrent and the non-concurrent GC, you end
up paying the price of concurrent GC in both cases :-(
For a start it would be sufficient to have a compiler switch that
disables all inlining of GC operations and uses some well defined
library interface instead. Nobody would have to pay anything
then. Optizing performance bottemlacks can wait until the first
alternative garbage collector is out.
Hendrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-19 9:19 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
2006-09-19 2:02 ` [Caml-list] " Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
2006-09-19 9:19 ` Hendrik Tews [this message]
2006-09-15 20:26 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
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