Invisible wrote:
> I love the way that 600 LoC is considered "modest".

I imagine it's also *conceptually* modest, in that it's just the OS 
notifying the program it's *going* to swap out pages.

> I doubt we'll be seeing sophisticated cooperation schemes any time soon, 
> but I wonder how long it will be before the OS gains the ability to 
> notify an application that it should release some memory is possible?

Like AmigaOS, you mean?

I think it's more the problem that if you have large production machines 
where this would be particularly helpful, you're probably only running one 
application on them anyway. People who are worried about this sort of thing 
don't put the database server and the web server on the same machine, for 
example.

It would probably help individual desktop applications, but I suspect it's 
not going to really work its way into Linux real soon due to the general 
disdain that GC seems to have in that community.  I'd be more likely to 
expect it to show up in Windows and be plumbed into .NET first, since 
Microsoft has control over both of those. It's a shame the most popular GC 
implementations are the ones that suck so bad performance-wise.

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