Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Yeah, old GC algorithms used to do this. Research has been done, 
> solutions have been found, etc.

Plus, a lot of the complaints about GC slowness are caused in part by 
the GC not interacting with the paging system well. I.e., the OS isn't 
prepared for programs that're going to do GC in particular patterns.

There are read-aheads on disk files. Why would you wait until the GC 
hits the bad page before starting to read it in?

Of course, paging systems nowadays don't even know the physical layouts 
of the disks, so it's generally hard to do things like select sectors on 
the swap partition in a way that paging things back in will be fast.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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