Am 15.03.2012 15:42, schrieb Warp:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> The other fun thing is that few people have built concurrent GC engines.
>> At least with manual memory management, one thread doesn't usually block
>> other threads from running.
>
>    A concurrent compacting GC sounds to me like a very hard problem.
> If the GC moves objects around in RAM, it has to make sure that no code
> is modifying the object while the GC is moving it. How does it achieve
> that efficiently, I have no idea.

If the GC was part of the OS, maybe something could be done with page 
faulting.

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