Re: GC algorithms

From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Thu Dec 03 1998 - 01:18:46 EST

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On Dec 2, 1998, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:

> Interesting paper "Mostly parallel garbage collection":

> The idea is to use page faults to detect changed pointers,
> so you can run the GC (mostly) in parallel.

Do they present any performance figures about this mechanism? I think
page faults are too expensive a way to detect changed pointers, unless
you have page faults very rarely.

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