[Vm-dev] GC

[Clément Bera]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:

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> On 26 April 2018 at 23:09, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Clément, Hi All,
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>>    I answered a question on Quora on GC recently and that same question
>> was answered by Jon Harrop, who has taken a good look at GC performance.
>> If you're not on Quora yet, let me encourage you.  This blog post is a good
>> read:
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>> https://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/does-reference
>> -counting-really-use-less.html
>> <https://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/does-reference-counting-really-use-less.html?m=1>
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>> And in Jon's answer to the Quora question he mentions Staccato, A
>> Parallel and Concurrent Real-time Compacting Garbage Collector for
>> Multiprocessors https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9770/fc9baf
>> 0f2b6c7521f00958973657bf03337d.pdf
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>> That's my reading for today.
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>> _,,,^..^,,,_ (phone)
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> What is the significance of Minimum Mutator Utilisation
> and is a comparative value known for our compactors?
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> I thought this was interesting about the mark phase...
> > each thread maintains its own thread-local fragment of the [mark-stack].
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> Do I understand correctly that the mark-stack is equivalent to the
> grey-marked collection?
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> btw...
> What support does Slang have for concurrent programming?
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There is a Thread model for ThreadedFFI which is used in CogMT.

There are in the C code CAS operations that I would like some day to
leverage in the language...


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> cheers -ben
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