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3 Sep 2024 17:14:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Garbage collection without paging  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 13 Oct 2010 14:31:41
Message: <4cb5fb0d$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 04:43 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/f034-hertz.pdf
> 
> "The bookmarking collector relies on some additional
> operating system support, which consists of a modest extension
> to the Linux virtual memory manager (approximately six hundred
> lines of code)."
> 
> I love the way that 600 LoC is considered "modest". I wonder how ****ing
> big the whole VMM is?! o_O

Please take a guess at how many LoC the entire Linux kernel has.
Then look it up.


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