GC behaviour in GHC

[Andrew Cheadle]

Nivia,

Don has mentioned most of the documentation about GC work in GHC except
for:

Generational garbage collection for Haskell -  Sansom, Peyton Jones
	http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/sansom93generational.html

There isn't really a paper on the performance of GHC's current
generational / compacting collector. I do have one in progress
which relates to further work I've been doing on the implementation of
the incremental collector. (The incremental collector is not
currently available in a GHC release).

If you have specific questions feel free to ask and I'll try to answer
the to my best ability.

What kind of applications are you working with that make them time
critical - Do you want to increase user responsiveness and reduce pause
times or have the programs run as fast as possible?

I'm assuming you want the latter. Have you tried playing with GHC's
various tunable GC parameters?

Cheers

Andy

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

>niviaquental:
>>
>>    Hello, GHC users,
>>
>>    I'm a Computational Engineering student in the University of
>>    Pernambuco (Brazil). In my research, I'm working with
>>    applications written in Haskell , where time is a critical
>>    factor. But there is a pretty high GC overhead I can't
>>    understand . Can someone indicate some paper or
>>    reference about the GC behaviour in GHC?
>
>Well, I know of a couple:
>
>The workings of the incremental garbage collector:
>        http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/inc-gc.htm
>
>The runtime system document also mentions GC:
>        http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/run-time-system.ps.gz
>
>There are probably more references at:
>        http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html
>
>-- Don
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