From: Joshua Haberman <joshua@...>
Date: 2006-02-14T15:17:55+09:00
Subject: Re: couple quick questions about YARV


On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: couple quick questions about YARV"
>     on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:28:32 +0900, Joshua Haberman  
> <joshua@reverberate.org> writes:
>
> |1. any idea what the up-front cost for starting up YARV will be?  I'm
> |just hoping we won't see 1 second of disk churn that we've come to
> |expect from the JVM.
>
> [snip evidence of YARV starting faster than Ruby 1.8]

Excellent!  I'm really glad to see that.

For a slightly more radical question: are there any long-term plans  
to revisit the garbage-collection strategy?  For interactive  
programs, it is really undesirable to have the whole program lock up  
from time to time (while the garbage collector runs).  I know Java  
has implemented some alternative garbage collection algorithms to  
support more real-time use.  And there have been some papers  
published about multithreaded garbage collection (like [0])

Thoughts?

Josh

[0] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=286878