• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Sep 01 2010
• "Craig Black" <cblack ara.com> Sep 03 2010
• Justin Johansson <no spam.com> Sep 03 2010
• "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Sep 03 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC with
this one?

http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/

Delegating the creation and management of the D GC to someone else (the Mono
team) sounds like a possible way to have a good enough GC.

Bye,
bearophile

"Craig Black" <cblack ara.com> writes:

This would be awesome if the Mono guys were willing to cooperate.

-Craig

Justin Johansson <no spam.com> writes:

On 02/09/10 08:03, bearophile wrote:
 Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC with
this one?

 http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/

 Delegating the creation and management of the D GC to someone else (the Mono
team) sounds like a possible way to have a good enough GC.

 Bye,
 bearophile


Can you elucidate perhaps a little bit about the theory of the Mono GC
and why it might be interesting.  Some hypotheses about what makes one
GC better than another would be nice topics for discussion.

Cheers
Justin

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:33:40 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com>  
wrote:

 Is it possible to try to replace (or just perform experiments) the D GC  
 with this one?

 http://developers.sones.de/2010/09/01/taking-the-new-and-shiny-mono-simple-generational-garbage-collector-mono-sgen-for-a-walk/

 Delegating the creation and management of the D GC to someone else (the  
 Mono team) sounds like a possible way to have a good enough GC.


license-wise, I think it would be possible to just port.  The GC portion  
of mono is licensed via MIT X/11

It says it's semi-precise (everything except registers and stack, which  
are scanned conservatively).  ATM, D doesn't have enough data to have  
precise scanning (though there is work being done on that).

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to try out this GC, it seems to be  
mostly usable in a D environment.

-Steve