Nicolas, here is what Steve Dekorte, the creator of libGC and the Io
language,
have to say about your questions. Do you still think that libGC is
not suitable?
-- Jaime
PS. Steve email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11 Jul 2006, at 09:59 pm, Jaime Vargas wrote:
Hi Steve,
I suggested Nicolas to use libGC in the NekoVM, he has some concerns.
Could you please help clarify them. Thx, Jaime
Begin forwarded message:
Nicolas have you consider the libGarbageCollector it is BSD
licensed and used in the Io Language?
http://www.dekorte.com/projects/opensource/libGarbageCollector/
-- Jaime
I didn't know about it but looks like it's not most suitable :
- it has one CollectorMarker extra per allocated block - how many
bytes ? (versus one bit per block for the Boehm GC)
2 pointers + 1 int (actually only need a 4 bits for the int)
- is it multithread safe ?
I haven't thought
(Steve, I spoke with Jer an he thinks that libGC is multithread
safe, but probably not-reentrant)
- you need to handle write barriers and C locals registration by
yourself,
This is true. But then conservative collectors are likely to be much
slower, possibly unreliable, and involve pauses. There is no free lunch.
- Steve
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