On 11/07/2013 13:30, Felix S. Klock II wrote:
Caveat: The latter paper that I cited is for a Modula-3 compiler/runtime (i.e., compiler support for the GC is definitely provided; in other words: "cooperative software environment").On 10/07/2013 22:04, Graydon Hoare wrote:I assume you've read this: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-91-8.pdfThis is also relevant, I think (and more recent):Antony L. Hosking. 2006. Portable, mostly-concurrent, mostly-copying garbage collection for multi-processors. In /Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Memory management/ (ISMM '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 40-51. DOI=10.1145/1133956.1133963 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133956.1133963http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1133963
The former paper that Graydon cited is for the explicitly uncooperative environment of C++; no hardware nor compiler support.
I presume Rust falls somewhere between these two extremes, so both may be relevant.
Cheers,
-Felix, (still playing catchup)
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