Nate, please comment on your notion of having list all functionality, and how allowing cycles could be ok under such a scenario.
Hans Chester R. Hosey wrote: >Peter van Hardenberg wrote: > > >>Although I freely acknowledge my inexperience, I believe the real problems >>are >>related to graph traversal algorithms. Linus has commented on the obvious >>hardlink issues. I imagine there are more gremlins lurking in the shadows on >>this one. Garbage collectors have largely given up on reference counting, a >>luxury afforded by blazingly fast access to small amounts of storage. I am >>not particularly up on the research though. >> >> > >Just a suggestion from the uninformed peanut gallery... > >Hans already plans on having a repacker, which will run incrementally in >the background. Might it make sense to do incremental GC, possibly even >in combination with the repacker's traversal of the disk? > >Chet > > > > >
