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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:	2006-09-18 (13:23)
From:	skaller <skaller@u...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: The Future Possibility of Concurrent Garbage Collection?


> 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 :-(

Can you explain this in more detail?

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