On Saturday, March 10, 2012 10:12:44 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 10-03-2012 10:09, so wrote: > > On Saturday, 10 March 2012 at 08:53:23 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > >> In all fairness, a stop-the-world GC in a kernel probably *is* a > >> horrible idea. > > > > For us (desktop users), it would not differ much would it now? > > Linux was never intended to be a pure desktop kernel. It's used widely > in server and embedded machines.
And actually, when _responsiveness_ is one of the key features that a desktop OS requires, a stop-the-world GC in a desktop would probably be _worse_ than one in a server. - Jonathan M Davis