Jay McCarthy wrote at 01/01/2012 04:34 PM:
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:37:03 -0500,Neil Van Dyke<n...@neilvandyke.org> mumbled:
Maybe some student wants to see whether any big wins can be gotten for
keeping continuations in addressable virtual memory, if they can tweak
the app, Racket compiler, Racket VM and GC, Racket Web Server, and Linux.
Emery Berger has already produced the "swap-sensitive" GC which would
transparently improve things like this for Racket and many other
languages. However, the Linux kernel maintainers didn't take the patch
and I believe Emery moved.
Many people run production servers with patched kernels. And distros
also are known to provide alternative kernel builds, in addition to
separating out some kernel modules into separate distro packages.
That said, if someone has a big win for GC'd languages that needs
support in the Linux kernel, I might be able to put them in touch with
someone who can advise on how to shepherd it in. It might have been
rejected for perceived quality, for perceived effectiveness, or because
it was not ``marketed'' the best way.
The kernel certainly has numerous esoteric modules and features already.
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