Re: Incremental GC (was RE: Projects)

[Corey Minyard <minyard at acm dot org>]

Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:

> I did try for a while to get your collector working, I looked at the
> insides for a while so I'm a little familiar with how it works.  I
> could not make the incremental mode collect anything at all on Linux
> PowerPC.  It also seemed to require a full mark-and-sweep periodically
> as evidenced by the GC_full_freq variable.  We need a purely
> incremental collector; we cannot take the delay of a full cycle.
> 

Oops, I realized that GC_full_freq is for generational collection.  I
had forgotten that detail, it's been a while.  Generational collection
did not work at least on the PowerPC.  I believe incremental did work,
it was generational that didn't work.

Corey