Incremental GC (was RE: Projects)

Sat May 13 19:33:00 GMT 2000

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