Excerpts from Patrick Palka's message of Fri Jul 26 14:21:11 -0700 2013: > Looks like whitehole_spin is _not_ always 0. Contention just seems to be > really rare.
I think the paper "Parallel Generational-Copying Garbage Collection with a Block-Structured Heap" can give some intuition on why contention is low. Edward _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
