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#36649
27.0.50; pure space and pdumper
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Reported by: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:27:01 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Found in version 27.0.50
Done: Pip Cet <pipcet <at> protonmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #369 received at 36649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Interesting!
>
> Is there something I could read about your new GC?
Not exactly. It's a very simple 3 color incremental mark-and-sweep
collector (which is not generational or moving) using hardware write
barriers to keep track of changes made by the mutator. I tried to keep
the design of the existing garbage collector intact as much as possible.
The motive was to get rid of the noticeable freeze during garbage
collection instead of making GC itself fast.
> I'm asking because I once also had plans to rewrite Emacs' GC (to be
> incremental and generational). But hat was >20 years ago, and it
> never took off because the algorithm I used was patented. Which it no
> longer is, I think.
Which algorithm(s) were you considering? I think that information might
be useful.
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