Fw: [gclist] zillion objects and gc

From: LARRY J EVANS (jcampbell3_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-30 10:36:38

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From: LARRY J EVANS <jcampbell3_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>; <gclist_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [gclist] zillion objects and gc

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes_at_[hidden]>
> To: David F. Bacon <dfb_at_[hidden]>
> Cc: <David.Chung_at_[hidden]>; Garbage Collection Mailing List
> <gclist_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [gclist] zillion objects and gc
>
>
> > At 2001-08-29 16:42:16+0000, "David F. Bacon" writes:
> >
> > > you might be interested in some work that we did at IBM watson in the
> > > jalapeno JVM on concurrent cycle collection that was recently
published
> > > in PLDI and ECOOP; see
> > > http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/papers.html for copies.
> >
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/GarbageCollectByTmplSpecializa/
> contains
> a c++ implementation of the uniprocessor algorithm referenced in
> Bacon01Concurrent.pdf
> file found on the above papers.html page.  The version currently on boost
> (in the gc_sel_ssp.zip
> file in file lib/gc_sel_ssp/special/subjtop_lazy_crc.cpp )
> does not implement to improvement that's mentioned below fig 1 in the pdf
> file; however,
> I THINK further development after that upload does have the improvements.
> I'm away from
> my computer
> for about 12 days, but then I can check to make sure and upload whatever
> I've got to boost.  Since boost is
> currently working on a threads library, maybe soon some boost threads
> experts could
> help implement the concurrent version mentioned in the Bacon pdf file.
>
>