Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-18 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/10 01:18 , Nathan Howell wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: I thought Windows already had a system message for something like that. Or at least it used to, although I can see why it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-17 Thread Richard O'Keefe
On 16/10/2010, at 10:35 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: Also, it's news to me that Java finds heavy use anywhere yet. (Then again, if they run Java server-side, how would you tell?) Java seems to be used heavily for developing mobile phone applications (other than iPhone, of course). My young

Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-17 Thread Nathan Howell
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: I thought Windows already had a system message for something like that.  Or at least it used to, although I can see why it would have been removed or at least deprecated. You're probably thinking of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-16 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 15/10/2010 11:50 PM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote: On 10/15/2010 03:15 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: On the other hand, their implementation uses a modified Linux kernel, and no sane person is going to recompile their OS kernel with a custom patch just to run Haskell applications, so we can't do

Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-16 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 16 October 2010 10:35, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:  On 15/10/2010 11:50 PM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:  On 10/15/2010 03:15 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: On the other hand, their implementation uses a modified Linux kernel, and no sane person is going to recompile their OS

Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-16 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/10 05:35 , Andrew Coppin wrote: GC languages are not exactly rare, so maybe we'll see some OSes start adding new system calls to allow the OS to ask the application whether there's any memory it can cheaply hand back. We'll see... I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

2010-10-15 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On 10/15/2010 03:15 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: On the other hand, their implementation uses a modified Linux kernel, and no sane person is going to recompile their OS kernel with a custom patch just to run Haskell applications, so we can't do quite as well as they did. But still, and