The "no gc" crowd

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 13.10.2013 16:21, schrieb qznc:
> On Tuesday, 8 October 2013 at 15:43:46 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> At least on Internet forums, there seems to be an entire category of
>> people dismissing D immediately because it has a GC.
>>
>> Whatever rational rebutal we have it's never heard.
>> The long answer is that it's not a real problem. But it seems people
>> want a short answer. It's also an annoying fight to have since so much
>> of it is based on zero data.
>
> Just stumbled upon this paper "A Study of the Scalability of Stop-the-world
> Garbage Collectors on Multicores". I have not read it in detail, but the
> conclusion says:
>
> "Our evaluation suggests that today, there is no conceptual reason to
> believe that the pause time of a stop-the-world GC will increase with
> the increasing number of cores and memory size of multicore hardware."
>
> http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Gael.Thomas/research/biblio/2013/gidra13asplos-naps.pdf
>


Thanks for the paper, as language geek I love to read them.

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Paulo