Thanks! That was a very informative read.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
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