[gclist] zillion objects and gc

Larry Evans jcampbell3@prodigy.net
Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:06:04 -0500


"Boehm, Hans" wrote:

> That isn't a publically accessible URL ...
>
> Hans
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LARRY J EVANS [mailto:jcampbell3@PRODIGY.NET]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:35 AM
> > To: boost@yahoogroups.com; gclist@iecc.com
> > Subject: Re: [gclist] zillion objects and gc
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
> > To: David F. Bacon <dfb@watson.ibm.com>
> > Cc: <David.Chung@USPTO.GOV>; Garbage Collection Mailing List
> > <gclist@iecc.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: [gclist] zillion objects and gc
> >
> >
> > > At 2001-08-29 16:42:16+0000, "David F. Bacon" writes:
> > >
> > > > you might be interested in some work that we did at IBM
> > watson in the
> > > > jalapeno JVM on concurrent cycle collection that was
> > recently published
> > > > in PLDI and ECOOP; see
> > > > http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/papers.html for copies.
> > >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/GarbageCollectByTmpl
> > Specializa/
> > contains
> > a c++ implementation of the uniprocessor algorithm referenced in
> > Bacon01Concurrent.pdf
> > file found on the above papers.html page.  The version
> > currently on boost
> > (in the gc_sel_ssp.zip
> > file in file lib/gc_sel_ssp/special/subjtop_lazy_crc.cpp )
> > does not implement to improvement that's mentioned below fig
> > 1 in the pdf
> > file; however,
> > I THINK further development after that upload does have the
> > improvements.
> > I'm away from
> > my computer
> > for about 12 days, but then I can check to make sure and
> > upload whatever
> > I've got to boost

I've included the updated crc lazy code in a publicly available gzip'ed tar file accessed from
http://sites.netscape.net/cppljevansusa/garbageCollection/SmartInternalPointers.htm.