Quantifying the Performance of Garbage Collection vs. Explicit Memory Management

[renoX]

Craig Black Wrote:

> > The are two drawback of their GC:
> > 1) The OS needs to be modified so that the VM and the GC communicate.
> 
> Perhaps not.  There may be other ways to detect how the VM for virtual 
> memory (not virtual machine) works without specific OS queries.  It could be 
> part of the application initialization to determine this.  I don't know 
> enough details to know whether this is possible.

I doubt it very much: how would the application know what is the memory pressure without querying the OS in some way or another?

Their paper is quite detailed about how their GC works..

Regards,
renoX