I think you misunderstood a few thinks: 1. V8 is open source software, we do not licence and put in commercial components (since the licences would not be compatible. Anybody can take and use V8 for most purposes, the licensing is very permissive (New BSD License). 2. V8 has a completely custom memory management system and garbage collection that allocates large chunks of virtual memory and places executable assembly code and data objects inside it. This is not using C++ memory constructors/destructors, and the garbage collector is not using reference counting. Since this is done in C++ we do, of course, use C++ constructors/destructors in addition to stack allocated locals. This does, however, have no impact on the actual performance of V8, and we already have coding standards and tools that enables us to do this effectively.
Cheers, Rico On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:15 AM, philippeb8 <philipp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I would like to present you a memory manager of constant complexity I > wrote in C++. It can easily be integrated in the core V8 engine to > replace the garbage collector it is currently using. Its > documentation and a presentation can be found here: > https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/block_ptr/libs/smart_ptr/doc/index.html > > The memory manager solves: > > - deterministic destructors (no need for finalizers) > - constant complexity (thus fast) > > Those are dramatic improvements that will help Google developers > tremendously because garbage collectors do not have a good overall > performance and object destructions are not deterministic. > > What I propose is a relicensing of the library for the commercial > usages of Google. > > > > Sincerely yours, > > Phil Bouchard > Software Engineer > > > Author of: > - A scientific calculator featuring accelerated 3D graphics and non- > linear regressions: > http://www.fornux.com/ > - Finite Theory of the Universe, Dark Matter Disproof and Faster-Than- > Light Speed: > http://amzn.com/B005NLU7OU > > -- > v8-dev mailing list > v8-dev@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > -- v8-dev mailing list v8-dev@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev
