[bitc-dev] Retrospective Thoughts on BitC

[David Jeske]

Raoul - Thanks for posting that reference to Azul.

While we've heard of Azul before (and already mentioned them in this
thread), I was not aware that they had already done exactly what I had
wondered about. They mated their Pauseless GC algorithm (now called C4) to
an x86 MMU supported barrier. Their paper claims sub 0.02s worst-case pause
times with a 30GB+ heap, where Sun's concurrent collector has a worst-case
pause of over 10 seconds.

http://www.azulsystems.com/technology/c4-garbage-collector

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1993491&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=96709212&CFTOKEN=86276521

Very interesting read for anyone who hasn't seen it.
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