[Haskell-cafe] Real-time garbage collection for Haskell

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sun Feb 28 05:29:51 EST 2010


Luke Palmer wrote:
> I have seen some proposals around here for SoC projects and other
> things to try to improve the latency of GHC's garbage collector.

I'm guessing making the GC concurrent (i.e., so you can perform GC 
without having to stop all Haskell threads) would probably help in the 
multithreaded case...

(I'm also guessing this is slightly nontrivial to implement. :-) )



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