[Vm-dev] GC

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Ken,


> On Apr 27, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Ken.Dickey <Ken.Dickey at whidbey.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> You might be interested in
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> "Very Concurrent Mark and Sweep Garbage Collection without Fine-Grain Synchronization"
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> http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/concurrent_gc/
> 
> I suspect the Smalltalk allocation rate is much higher than Limbo, but the algorithm is simple -- and in a multicore system..

Yes, thanks.  This is the paper that Clément and I have read and take as a model for the incremental talk mark-sweep we're planning, and which Clément's recent compactor work supports moving towards.


> 
> FYI,
> -KenD


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