From: Roger Pack Date: 2012-01-06T07:33:41+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:41930] Re: Proposal: Bitmap Marking GC > Any chance of integrating this with your parallel mark GC? �That could > improve overall performance and negate any performance loss from this. Except that the mark phase can't be run in parallel :) Actually now that I think about it you might be able to have multiple threads "ruby_gc_mark" through various children. That might be an interesting optimization. -r