[Haskell-cafe] GHC Memory Management wiki page

Kostiantyn Rybnikov k-bx at k-bx.com
Wed Jul 8 14:10:47 UTC 2015


I would suggest posting this to ghc-devs.
7 лип. 2015 07:54 "Kyle Miller" <kmill31415 at gmail.com> пише:

> I have been studying the garbage collection algorithms used in GHC, and it
> appears to me that section two of [1] is misleading, since thunks permit
> controlled mutation of the heap, and so objects in older generations may
> point to younger objects.  In fact, the RTS maintains "remembered sets" to
> keep track of these relations.  A Haskell could in principle be implemented
> in the way described (and execute in surprising complexity classes), but
> this does not seem to match reality.
>
> [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Memory_Management
>
> Should the wiki be modified?
>
> Regards,
> Kyle Miller
>
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