For Inspiration: arena-based, quad-color incremental, generational, non-copying, high-speed, cache-optimized garbage collector

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 09:04:41 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 04/02/2018 8:49 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:
>> On 2018-02-04 08:41:04 +0000, rikki cattermole said:
>> 
>>> "It doesn't need to be concurrent, since Lua states are 
>>> completely independent."
>>>
>>> Single threaded simplifies a lot. So no, not useful.
>> 
>> Well, I wouldn't be able to judge that fast from a single line 
>> in the text, if the concept can/can't be tweaked/extended. 
>> That's why I added "for inspiration" to the subject...
>
> Really we ought to use Boehm, as the newer versions can be 
> generational&incremental.

Not really you can’t - first check the API to understand that 
without manually placed (or injected by compiler) safepoints it 
doesn’t work.


>
> It is potentially quite a lot better than our version of it.

It might be.