Antti-Ville Tuuainen Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

[renoX]

On Thursday, 23 August 2012 at 14:49:11 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
> 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.

Funny, I've just read an interview from Narihiro Nakamura who is 
working on parallel marking in Ruby: 
http://rubysource.com/narihiro-nakamura-rubys-gc-innovator/

BR,
renoX