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RE: dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)
- To: "'dewar at gnat dot com'" <dewar at gnat dot com>, olson at mmsi dot com, tromey at redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)
- From: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:31:17 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, jsturm at one-point dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dewar@gnat.com [mailto:dewar@gnat.com]
>
> <<Read the paper "Compiler Support for Garbage Collection in a
> Statically Typed Language", by Diwan, Moss, and Hudson. My copy says
> "To appear in SIGPLAN '92 PLDI".
> >>
Proceedings of the SIGPLAN '92 Conference on Programming Language Design and
Implementation, pp. 273-282.
>
> Well there is a VERY extensive literature much earlier than
> this. Remember
> that Algol-68 requires fully type accurate garbage
> collection, and all the
> problems were worked out in the early 70's, with a general
> conclusion that
> the costs are not that high (this includes dealing with
> parallel incremental
> garbage collection in a multi-threaded environment, since A68 had full
> thread support). Of course there is a followon literature, but this is
> hardly a new problem.
>
And indeed the above paper cites a 1971 paper by Branquart and Lewi in
"Algol 68 Implementation".
A good, more recent, paper is
Stichnoth, Lueh, and Cierniak, "Support for Garbage Collection at Every
Instruction in a Java Compiler", PLDI '99.
Hans