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Re: Opportunistic GC
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Andrea Corallo |
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Re: Opportunistic GC |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:01:52 +0000 |
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Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:37 AM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
>> I've been running with the code below recently to try and see if
>> opportunistic GC can be worth the trouble.
>
> Just a random idea: What if we exploit the fact most people have more
> than one CPU core these days, garbage-collect in a separate fork()ed
> process, then do only the sweeping in the main process?
It's an interesting concept, I thought about something similar in the
past but, I've two questions:
Are we really sure that a non trivial process can long survive
or work as expected after being forked?
Do we have (an efficient) fork on all supported systems?
Thanks
Andrea
- Re: Opportunistic GC, (continued)
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Pip Cet, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Pip Cet, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Pip Cet, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Stefan Monnier, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Pip Cet, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Stefan Monnier, 2021/03/08
Re: Opportunistic GC,
Andrea Corallo <=
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Pip Cet, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Stefan Monnier, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Andrea Corallo, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Philipp Stephani, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Andrea Corallo, 2021/03/08
- Re: Opportunistic GC, Philipp Stephani, 2021/03/08
Re: Opportunistic GC, Stefan Monnier, 2021/03/08
Re: Opportunistic GC, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
Re: Opportunistic GC, Pip Cet, 2021/03/10
Re: Opportunistic GC, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/10