Alexandre Buisse wrote:
On 6/8/05, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) a local GC run in the threads arena
2) GC of the shared arena
Case 1) is simple as it's fully private to the thread. A non-shared
object can not be referenced by a shared one, therefore all local
garbage can be i
Sorry for answering so late...
On 6/8/05, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jerry gay wrote:
> > i'm no gc expert, but here's my comments after discussions with
> > alexandre on #parrot.
> >
> > On 6/8/05, Alexandre Buisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > since threading issues haven't
Sam Vilain wrote:
AIUI, another effect of adding another indirection to every pointer lookup,
is that it will place a little extra stress on the memory caching systems,
as two regions will need to be accessed continually.
Yes, that's of course true. But please compare:
now
Alexandre Buisse wrote:
So we add a level of indirection: objects consist of a header and the
actual data. Headers are allocated once and for all at object creation
and do not move. [...]
The big disadvantage of this approach is that we use one or two words
(if objects need to know where their he
jerry gay wrote:
i'm no gc expert, but here's my comments after discussions with
alexandre on #parrot.
On 6/8/05, Alexandre Buisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
since threading issues haven't been mentioned here, i thought i'd make
sure they get discussed. now, if someone could say something
int
"tuned dynamically", as in at run-time? alexandre mentioned this may
be possible on #parrot, but there may be trouble with decreasing the
generation count. i don't know if run-time tuning of the generation
count is necessary, but if so, i imagine that decreasing the count at
run-time could be ac
i'm no gc expert, but here's my comments after discussions with
alexandre on #parrot.
On 6/8/05, Alexandre Buisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Following google SoC and TODO item,
> https://rt.perl.org/rt3//Ticket/Display.html?id=33922, here is the
> scheme proposal for a new parrot GC (many thanks
