On 8/12/2012 2:23, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> I like how the algorithm description is sufficiently vague that you can't
> tell how it actually works.

It was four clicks away, with the previous three clicks giving successively 
more detailed descriptions.

http://labs.oracle.com/jtech/pubs/04-g1-paper-ismm.pdf

You're welcome.

> it "detects" any attempt to access a moved object, but again doesn't say
> how.

Memory mapping. It traps on reading the memory that hasn't been fixed yet, 
then fixed up the entire page worth of references, then marks the memory as 
readable.

> Since it's impossible to have a machine with 140GB of RAM,

Since when is it impossible? We had 128G of RAM on the Sparcstation we used 
back in 1995 or so. And that wasn't even a mainframe.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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