Antti-Ville Tuuainen Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

Alex Rønne Petersen alex at lycus.org
Thu Aug 23 07:49:09 PDT 2012


On 23-08-2012 16:47, dsimcha wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 14:38:19 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>> Yes, but parallelization of the mark phase is fairly trivial, and
>> something we should probably look into.
>
> Ironically, Antti-ville's original proposal involved parallelization.
> This was scrapped because after rtinfo was added, we agreed that precise
> heap scanning was more important and looked newly feasible.

Oh, I agree it's more important. The GC is reasonably fast as-is, but 
has severe issues with false pointers. Parallel marking is just in the 
"nice to have" category.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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