A different kind of Walter? :-)
Lionello Lunesu
lio at lunesu.remove.com
Thu Apr 19 23:34:51 PDT 2007
Walter Bright wrote:
> David B. Held wrote:
>> That being said, I think it would be *particularly* clever of you to
>> use your start-from-scratch kernel to explore new ideas in
>> multi-processing and massive multithreading, but this would imply
>> having decent multi-CPU hardware to play with.
>
> I'd also like to see better operating system support for garbage
> collection - either making gc an operating system service, or providing
> hooks to the virtual memory subsystem so the gc can tell when pages are
> dirty.
I wish there were a function like VirtualRealloc that would grow a
memory block without EVER having to physically move the data.
(That doesn't exist in Win32, does it?)
L.
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