On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Greg Hendershott <greghendersh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What does it mean for the GC to collect a negative number of bytes?
I'm ducking this one... > P.S. I thought "Azul's pauseless garbage collector" > (http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html, which I > found via http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4165) sounded > interesting. What do folks here who know about GC think about it, and > would this type of approach would be worthwhile for Racket someday? IIRC Azul's GC relies on either hardware or kernel cooperation. Since kernel developers are anything but cooperative I doubt Racket will be able to take advantage of the same technology anytime soon. N. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
