[Vm-dev] Multicore Musings

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

Greetings,

Nothing big here.

I was updating my view of multicore GC strategies and happened on a 
paper with an interesting conclusion:

"Our evaluation suggests that today, there is no conceptual reason to 
believe that the
pause time of a stop-the-world GC will increase with the increasing
number of cores and memory size of multicore hardware."

https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/868012/filename/gidra13asplos-naps.pdf

The description in the paper sounds a lot less complicated than a number 
of multicore gc strategies I have been looking at.

Also of note, http://concurrencykit.org with a library of cross-platform 
lock-free code, which might make playing with the above strategy a bit 
simpler.

I really don't have time to chase this, but just in case someone out 
there has a grad student looking for a project..  ;^)

FYI,
-KenD