"Paolo has been working on a new garbage collector (GC) engine. Currently Mono GC interface is almost pluggable (the work to plug different GCs was done a few months ago).
The new GC engine is a precise, generational, compacting collector. This means that the Mono GC will be able to return memory to the operating system when it no longer needs it.
We are making a few tradeoffs to ship this version of the collector quickly. For instance this new GC will treat the stack conservatively has two effects: it makes it easy for embedders of Mono to use the new GC but it also might flag a lot of pinned objects.
We hope that the new GC can be tested in February or March, the code will start landing in December."
I'd want to know more about the statut of this new GC. I think, that mono will be usable (on a desktop) (try to use beagle...) only if there's a good precise GC... There's too many memory leak problems with the current boehm GC... (even on a server, i must restart apache once a week to avoid memory problem).
Regards
Hubert FONGARNAND _______________________________________________
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