A generational and compacting GC has my vote as well. - raf
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 13:46 +0100, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > Jonathan Pryor wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:33 +0100, Alex Chudnovsky wrote: > > > > > >>Don't want to throw stones as its amazing what was achieved in Mono, but > >>IMO, Microsoft's implementation of Garbage Collection is considerably > >>better - not speed wise, but reclaiming memory that is no longer in use. > >> > >> > > > >This is because Mono's current GC is the Boehm GC, which is a > >conservative collector. > > > >Paolo Molaro is working on a replacement GC, as mentioned here: > > > I am looking forward to see new GC - I wish I had time to put into Mono, > but sadly at the moment I am totally tied up :( > > What's the status on implementation of new GC - the link said it should > be rolled out in Feb-Mar, which is pretty much now? > > The whole issue of memory is not that straightforward as I thought > initially - particularly when it comes to fragmentation, I am currently > battling with this issue in my main app in .NET - it takes far more time > than its supposed to :( > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
