On Wednesday 30 May 2007 09:13:00 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> How much does a concurrent GC actually buy in comparison to
> multiple processes each with their own GC and a robust way
> of passing data between processes?

1. Shared memory and locks should be much faster for synchronization than 
marshalling between processes.

2. Forking results in multiple GCs redundantly traversing the same heap and, 
worst case, it may end up copying the entire heap in the child process in 
order to deallocate it.

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