LLVM D ... concurrent garbage collector ...

[Chris R. Miller]

BLS wrote:
> Slightly OT, but may-be interesting for the D/LLVM folks
> 
> OCaml comes along now with a parallel garbage collector ... well let's
> have a look :
> OCaml on *eight cores* http://planet.ocamlcore.org/
> 
> 
> quote :
> /
> Fortunately, Jane St. Capital (one of the largest industrial users of
> OCaml) have chosen to fund a "multicore" summer project that aims to
> provide a basic concurrent garbage collector implementation for OCaml.
> The team from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, led by Emmanuel
> Chailloux, intend to complete this project during the summer of 2008.
> 
> ********************
> 
> We have already written to team to suggest that they might also make
> their run-time compatible with the excellent LLVM project because this
> would make it much easier for open source developers to reuse this
> exciting technology.
> /
> http://ocamlnews.blogspot.com/2008/04/ocaml-to-get-concurrent-garbage.html
> 
> bjoern
> and folks, beside : D at TIOBE is a joke. Search for OCaml jobs or who
> is using OCaml.

Am I reading that right?  A garbage collector that wouldn't have to
suspend the runtime?  Or just one that plays nice with threads?

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