On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:13 PM, wren ng thornton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Surely. There are unboxed types in GHC though they're not first-class, as > they would be in BitC. I wasn't claiming that Haskell solves this problem, > far from it; I was merely pointing to GHC as a constructive proof that > there are shipping garbage collectors which are not unpredictable in the > way claimed by whoever I was replying to. > Claiming a collector has no unpredictable pauses because it only pauses during allocation is only an interesting observation when it is coupled with general case allocation-free solutions to common problems. This is greatly complicated when one wants to use standard components and libraries written by others which "may or may not" use these techniques. We just have to stop stopping the world...
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