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The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?

Jim Battin
- skaller
  - Andrej Bauer
- Damien Doligez
  - Yaron Minsky
    - Mike Lin
      - Gerd Stolpmann
    - Hendrik Tews
      - skaller
      - Stefan Monnier
        
        skaller
        
        Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
        
        Stefan Monnier
        
        Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
        
        Hendrik Tews
- Florian Weimer

Date:	-- (:)
From:	skaller <skaller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:24 +0200, Hendrik Tews wrote:
> "Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu> writes:
> 
>    That said, I do understand that a concurrent GC is a big technical
>    challenge, and I can understand why the ocaml team isn't eager to take it on
>    right now.
> 
> 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).

I doubt this is possible with native code compilers.
AFAIK allocation, write barrier, and int/box flag bit handling
aren't modelled using standard C ABI calls?

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