[Vm-dev] Re: A couple of memory management related questions

[Eliot Miranda]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>     I've started working on a new GC for Cog and have a few questions.
>
> 1. does anyone have a copy of Joel Bartlett's J. F. Bartlett. A
> generational, compacting collector for C++. In E. Jul and N.-C. Juul,
> editors, OOPSLA/ECOOP ‘90 Workshop on Garbage Collection in Object-Oriented
> Systems, Oct. 1990. ?
>

thanks to all 5 of you who've provided this.  Ta!


>
> 2. what's the largest number of classes you've got in your most complex
> image and/or what's the largest number of classes you're ever created in an
> image?  a.k.a.  is 64k classes enough (16 bits), or is 1m classes enough (24
> bits)?
>
> 3. do you have any personal recommendations, or example code, of systems
> that combine generation scavenging and/or compaction with object pinning?
>
> TIA,
> Eliot
>
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