[Haskell-cafe] rts nursery and stopping the world minor gc

[Ruben Astudillo]

On 08/06/17 15:03, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Ruben Astudillo <ruben.astud at gmail.com
> <mailto:ruben.astud at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     When the nursery of a capability gets filled, do we have to
>     stop-the-world just for that local nursery gc?. To me this is different
>     than gen0 or gen1 gc because isn't really a shared resource.
> 
> 
> Things that survive garbage collection get promoted out of the nursery.

but being promoted to gen0 is allocation, and thus there isn't need to
stop the other threads.

-- Ruben Astudillo