[Haskell-cafe] Haskell garbage collector notes?

[Austin Seipp]

Excerpts from Galchin, Vasili's message of Wed Aug 06 04:09:58 -0500 2008:
>      Is http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GarbageCollectorNotes a
> reliable source of info on the ghc garbage collector?

The page seems to be a little light for the most part, and it does not
seem to take into account the recent changes to give GHC a parallel
garbage collector (which is now integrated into the HEAD as far as I
can tell.)

For notes on the new parallel GC, you will want to see this paper:

http://research.microsoft.com/%7Esimonpj/papers/parallel-gc/index.htm

You may also want to look through the GHC Commentary regarding the
RTS, as I am sure it also contains information you will want to be
aware of (there are likely many cross-cutting concerns):

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts

In particular, the storage manager overview should be of interest:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Storage

Hope it helps.

Austin