I totally agree with you, Steve. This is probably the biggest area of potential win in integrating the VM into the OS.
On 5/11/05 10:23 PM, "Steve Blackburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Griswold wrote: > >> GC efficiency is very different than the speed at which the JVM runs it's GC >> code. >> >> >> > In my experience both the GC algorithm (Bob's "GC efficiency") and the > performance of the key GC code (Dmitry's point) are important. Having > developed a high performance GC core (Dmitry's point), we have spent > most of our time developing better GC algorithms (Bob's point). ;-) > > However, I think Dmitry's post highlights an important trend. Memory > performance is very important and architectural trends point to this > becoming more and more the case in the future (the relative cost of a > memory access and the relative advantage of locality is increasing all > the time). > > --Steve --
