On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Bennie Kloosteman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Question If you had such a GC like Anzul and im sure given 1M someone can > write one and the performance cost is say 30% would you build a runtime > or kernel with it ? > No, because a properly written kernel and a properly written runtime are both allocation-free after initialization. In consequence no mechanism for memory reclamation is required. However, I would have no hesitation committing an entire application platform to reliance on this style of collector, and I'd *gladly* give up 25% of my CPU cores if that is what it took to bring the RAM requirements back into line.
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