From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-07-10T08:11:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24243] Re: threaded gc for the sweep phase?

On Jul 8, 2009, at 22:13, Roger Pack wrote:

> Typically for me the GC spends about 50% of its time in mark phase,
> 50% in sweep phase.  Around there somewhere.
>
> Question.  Would it be possible to do the sweep phase in a separate  
> thread?

There are many research papers on this topic, you can probably find  
some by googling.