Re: [polyml] Storage management update

2012-08-30 Thread Phil Clayton
David, This looks really great - it should prove very valuable. I have a couple of questions about GC when performed by another thread: 1. Is PolyML.fullGC asynchronous, i.e. triggers GC to start in the background and returns immediately, or synchronous, i.e. waits until GC completes?

Re: [polyml] Storage management update

2012-08-30 Thread Phil Clayton
On 30/08/12 18:35, David Matthews wrote: On 30/08/2012 17:45, Phil Clayton wrote: This looks really great - it should prove very valuable. I have a couple of questions about GC when performed by another thread: 1. Is PolyML.fullGC asynchronous, i.e. triggers GC to start in the background and

[polyml] Storage management update

2012-07-05 Thread David Matthews
The version of Poly/ML in SVN is the result of over a year's work on the storage management. I'm currently testing the final phase of that and I'd be interested in feedback. The garbage collector has been almost completely rewritten and is now parallelised. The minor GC is completely

Re: [polyml] Storage management update

2012-07-05 Thread David Matthews
On 05/07/2012 12:03, Gerwin Klein wrote: Hi David, sounds excellent, we'll definitely be trying it out. Should we expect the Darwin version to be close to stable as well or should we concentrate on Linux only? Cheers, Gerwin Hi Gerwin, The reason I've concentrated on Linux is simply that I