On 10/15/2010 03:15 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:
On the other hand, their implementation uses a modified Linux kernel,
and no sane person is going to recompile their OS kernel with a custom
patch just to run Haskell applications, so we can't do quite as well
as they did. But still, and interesting read...
Ah, but you are missing an important fact about the article: it is not
about improving garbage collection for Haskell, it is about improving
collection for *Java*, which a language in heavy use on servers. If
this performance gain really is such a big win, then I bet that it would
highly motivate people to make this extension as part of the standard
Linux kernel, at which point we could use it in the Haskell garbage
collector.
Cheers,
Greg
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