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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] thousands of CPU cores |
On Friday 11 July 2008 15:03:48 Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > As a case in point, I suggest an experiment (which unfortunately I don't > have the time or motivation to realize). Replace the current Ocaml GC > either in bytecode or in nativecode ocaml by Boehm's collector (which is > multithread compatible). Now that I come to think of it, doesn't OCaml extensively break Boehm's assumptions, e.g. that pointer-like values refer to the start of an allocated block? So Boehm is likely to not collect anything. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e