On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:54:32AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> 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.

Fixed: http://merjis.com/developers/ancient

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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