Re: GC in embedded systems (was Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime)

[Adrian Hey]

On Fri 11 Aug, George Russell wrote:
> However REALLY worst-time-bounded garbage collection is very expensive in
> CPU time.  (Is there anything better than Baker's train algorithm?)
> In any case even if you do have garbage-collection, you will still need to
> demonstrate that you won't run out of memory.  And if you're going to
> do that sort of analysis, wouldn't it be better to use something like
> MLKit's regions rather than garbage collection?

I think this sentiment sums up my feelings pretty well. I'm not sure how
the MLFix solution would fit with Haskell.

Regards
-- 
Adrian Hey