generational_gc branch.

Vasily Chekalkin bacek at bacek.com
Thu Feb 10 21:50:59 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer at aevum.de> wrote:
> This is really great work. What's especially impressive is that GenGC uses
> considerably less memory. Do you have an explanation for that?

Yes. We collect memory much more often. With survival rate of 1-10%
from nursery collection we don't keep a lot of dead objects. And I
suspect that most of these objects ad CallContext/ExceptionHandlers
from PCC.

-- 
Bacek


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