Re: [Haskell-cafe] realtime garbage collector for ghc (was: Why functional programming matters)

2008-01-25 Thread Dan Licata
See also A parallel, real-time garbage collector Perry Cheng and Guy Blelloch PLDI 2001 This was implemented in the TILT compiler for SML (which, to be fair, is more of a research vehicle than a programmer-friendly implementation). -Dan On Jan25, Stefan Kersten wrote: > On 25.01.2008, at

[Haskell-cafe] realtime garbage collector for ghc (was: Why functional programming matters)

2008-01-25 Thread Stefan Kersten
On 25.01.2008, at 00:04, Evan Laforge wrote: Well... ghc still has a single-threaded garbage collector, so all the "par" threads must stop for garbage collection. So scaling to the level of a cluster would be significantly sub-linear. A real time incremental gc would be really cool. Some peop