[coyotos-dev] GC as a helper process

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:20 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 09/01/2007 hora 10:01:
> > Do you mean a *disk* garbage collector or an application-level garbage
> > collector?
> 
> I was thinking of an application-level GC.

I'm not an expert on GC. My suspicion is that GC is best done as an
in-process activity. The compiler needs to help to get efficient write
barriers, and that has a pretty tight coupling to the runtime system.

> 
> > Concerning the rest: yes, many parts *could* be split out. It is not
> > always useful to do so.
> 
> Has it already been tried in EROS?

No, because for the most part we haven't found existing libraries where
major splits are (a) useful and (b) sufficiently compatible.

Within the EROS-native subsystems, we simply use a different design
discipline to begin with.
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