On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 at 13:28:45 UTC, finalpatch wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 at 18:24:26 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
No you don't, as how often the GC kicks in depend of the rate
at which you produce garbage, which is going to be very low
with an hybrid approach.
This is simply not true.
Assume in a pure GC program the GC heap can grow up to X Mb
before a collection cycle happens, which has to scan X Mb of
memory.
Now let's say we have a hybrid program that uses 0.5X Mb of
RCed memory and 0.5X Mb of GC memory so the total memory
consumption is still X Mb. When the GC heap reaches 0.5X Mb, it
has to scan both RC and GC memory.
Could you elaborate? I thought based on both personal experience
and the papers referred to that it's uncontroversial a GC program
to run efficiently will need a multiple of actually used memory
as available memory. Thus the hybrid program should require
less total memory than the pure GC program, meaning at the same
total memory consumption there is less GC pressure, which I
understood to be part of deadalnix point.
