On 13/08/2012 10:47 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 12.08.2012 11:23, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
>
>> Come to think of it, they say they use page features to
>> implement some of this stuff - which is interesting, since only the OS
>> can do that...
>
> "Three successive generations of Azul's Vega series systems relied on
> custom multi-core processors and a custom OS kernel to deliver both the
> scale and features needed to support Pauseless GC. In 2010, Azul
> released its first software-only commercial implementation of C4 for
> modern commodity X86 hardware, using Linux kernel enhancements to
> support the required feature set."

Oh, wait - you have to run a customised OS kernel for it to work? Yeah, 
OK, that explains it then...

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