Re: native threads

Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Jan 2024 23:46:39 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.openmcl.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If you have a million processors but only one of them can run the GC thread, then ...

> On 5 Jan 2024, at 23:03, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
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> well… I know Amdahl’s Law - as in how much speedup you are entitled to, but I don’t see the connection here...
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>> On Jan 5, 2024, at 16:01, Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 5 Jan 2024, at 18:39, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> In systems that are SMP capable, I would think that one thread could be dedicated, if needed, to GC duties
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>> There's a famous law due to Amdahl which explains why that is not a good idea.
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