RE: State of parallel GC?

2007-11-16 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
) project. Andy's work on Non-Stop Haskell might be a good starting point. Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of | Jeremy Shaw | Sent: 15 November 2007 18:20 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: State of par

Re: State of parallel GC?

2007-11-15 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi > I am curious, because I have a project in mind that would benefit > greatly from real-time, parallel garbage collection :) Is Haskell real-time? Doesn't lazy evaluation rather destroy lots of the real-time properties that you might like in a language. If you want a real-time functional langu

Re: State of parallel GC?

2007-11-15 Thread Simon Marlow
Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: Ravi Nanavati wrote: It isn't an immediately pressing need a Bluespec, but we do get asked every once in a while about parallelizing the Bluespec compiler. Roshan James was working on parallel GC at MSR Cambridge last year. Unfortunately, it's not an internship-sized

Re: State of parallel GC?

2007-11-15 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, Is real-time, parallel garbage collection at all feasible? My thinking is, real-time garbage collection requires the garbage collector to be able to work on the problem in small, predictable, pieces. That seems like something which would also be useful for scaling up GC to multiple cores?

Re: State of parallel GC?

2007-11-14 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Ravi Nanavati wrote: It isn't an immediately pressing need a Bluespec, but we do get asked every once in a while about parallelizing the Bluespec compiler. Roshan James was working on parallel GC at MSR Cambridge last year. Unfortunately, it's not an internship-sized project. One of the t