Am 13.08.2012 11:48, schrieb Invisible:
> 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...

You HAD to run a customised OS kernel for it to work.

If I understand it correctly, modern CPUs and modern Linux kernels 
already include all the necessary "customizations".

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