Re: concurrent garbage collection and POSIX threads

On Friday 08 January 2010 20:14:56 you wrote:
> You don't have to pause any execution of app threads for a concurrent
> garbage collector. A full concurrent garbage collector can run as a lowest
> priority thread, and never invoke any thr_suspend/resume the like calls.

Rafael cited the Very Concurrent Garbage Collector (VCGC) which is a simple 
mostly-concurrent GC.

Incidentally, what is the simplest fully concurrent GC? The simplest approach 
I can think of would be to duplicate every pointer in the heap and use a 
ragged barrier to allow the system to migrate from using one to the other 
while the collector operates on the unused pointers (acting as a snapshot of 
the heap).

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