Hello folks, I wonder if the community would be interested in attaching another garbage collector to the parrot VM. For example, Apache Harmony contains implementation of a parallel garbage collector [1] which is quicker on modern multi-core and SMP systems.
If you think this may be technically feasible, I wonder if there are any legal issues which prevent Apache-licensed component to be used with the code licensed under artistic license. I'm currently looking at tools/dev/mk_manifest_and_skip.pl to add GC files to the build process. I'm also trying to dig up how --gc=<config> option of Configure.pl works. [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/harmony/enhanced/drlvm/trunk/vm/gc_gen/ With best regards, Masha
