On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jon Harrop <
jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eray,
>
> Retrofitting a new multicore-friendly GC onto OCaml is difficult for two
> main reasons:
>
> 1. You want plug-and-play GCs but the OCaml compiler is tightly coupled to
> the old GC (although OC4MC has decoupled them!).
>
>
I'm not really interested in changing anything else at the moment. I am just
looking to see if I can commission the implementation of a state-of-the-art
GC and plug it into ocaml. Naturally, like anyone, I have my own ideas about
how to correctly optimize dynamic memory allocation but I can take ocaml's
idea, that of using two heaps and go with it. So, oc4mc was successful in
decoupling after all? I need to go back and take a look at the source again.
It's getting complicated quickly :)

Cheers,

-- 
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