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The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?
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Date: | 2006-09-15 (20:27) |
From: | Florian Weimer <fw@d...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection? |
* Jim Battin: > 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? Right now, concurrent garbage collection seems to offer significantly less throughput. I'm not sure if it's worth all the effort. Another thing that might be interesting is a way to execute multiple run-times with independent heaps in a single process, with Ada-style rendezvous betweeen them and a special low-overhead form of marshalling.