[Haskell-cafe] realtime garbage collector for ghc (was: Why functional programming matters)

[Dan Licata]

See also

  A parallel, real-time garbage collector
  Perry Cheng and Guy Blelloch
  PLDI 2001

This was implemented in the TILT compiler for SML (which, to be fair, is
more of a research vehicle than a programmer-friendly implementation).

-Dan

On Jan25, Stefan Kersten wrote:
> On 25.01.2008, at 00:04, Evan Laforge wrote:
> >>Well... ghc still has a single-threaded garbage collector, so all the
> >>"par" threads must stop for garbage collection.  So scaling to the
> >>level of a cluster would be significantly sub-linear.
> >
> >A real time incremental gc would be really cool.  Some people claim
> >they exist, but which languages have one?
> 
> james mccartney's supercollider [1] has a non-copying incremental  
> collector based on [2], though not a parallel one.
> 
> btw, is an implementation of the incremental collector described in  
> [3] available somewhere? are there any plans to incorporate it into  
> future ghc versions?
> 
> <sk>
> 
> [1] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net
> [2] P. R. Wilson and M. S. Johnstone. Real-time non-copying garbage  
> collection. In ACM OOPSLA Wsorkshop on Memory Management and Garbage  
> Collection, 1993.
> [3] A. M. Cheadle, A. J. Field, S. Marlow, S. L. P. Jones, and R. L.  
> While. Exploring the barrier to entry: incremental generational  
> garbage collection for haskell. In ISMM ’04: Proceedings of the 4th  
> international symposium on Memory management, pages 163–174, New  
> York, NY, USA, 2004. ACM.
> 
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