A different kind of Walter? :-)

[Sean Kelly]

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.

Same here.  That the OS is aware of context switches and such should 
allow for some clever methods of garbage collection.  I'm actually a bit 
surprised that MS didn't do anything with GC support for Vista, given 
their push with CLI.


Sean