From: Kurt Stephens <kurt@...>
Date: 2008-11-13T15:37:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19910] Re: Status of copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

AFAIK, the BDW collector can be configured to do mostly-copying
collecting.  Why reinvent the wheel?

Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
> I've contacted to the author, Dr. Ugawa, and he kindly sent me an
> English translation of his slides.  He also gave me a permission to
> redistribute it, so I attach that file at the end of this mail.
>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: [ruby-core:19901] Re: Status of copy-on-write friendly garbage collector"
>>     on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:09:44 +0900, Hongli Lai <hongli@plan99.net> writes:
>>
>> |Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> |> Last month, I saw a research presentation on mostly copying garbage
>> |> collection for Ruby.  But you have to note that copying GC and
>> |> copy-on-write-friendly-ness is contradicting aspect.  You move objects
>> |> to compact the heap, it touches more pages.
>> |
>> |Is the presentation or other material online? I'm interested in reading it.
>>
>> I am afraid that it's only in Japanese.
>>
>> 							matz.
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>