Armin: the luajit GC does not exist either, it's just a plan as far as I know
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > Hi Remi, > > Just thinking about stmgc: currently it requires large transactions in > order to work efficiently. I think it is mostly caused by the fact > that transaction commits always force a minor collection. Maybe we > should rethink that at some point, by changing the GC completely... > There are moving GCs that are really concurrent but they tend to be an > advanced mess. Maybe a better alternative would be to experiment > again with non-moving GCs. Non-moving generational GCs are not very > common as far as I know, but they do exist; for example see > http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector . > > > A bientôt, > > Armin. > _______________________________________________ > pypy-dev mailing list > pypy-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
