Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:32:45 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Garbage Collection and Swap |
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:43:57PM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: > Read that. It's in all caps, so you should read it. It has meaning. > How about, everything is using Bohem GC. Bohem wanders around in the > heap concurrently. So all of your applications are wandering around > through their vm space everywhere, continuously. > You get low on ram. Let's say an app is using 500M of ram (Mozilla). > What's going to happen? Obvious. It's going to yank shit out of swap. > If we all linked against a GC, what kinds of swap hell do you think we'd > encounter?
Ones almost as bad as the Hell of trolls going nuts over hypothetical problems no one is stupid enough to cause in practice anyway.
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