CDGC done
by Leandro Lucarella on 2010- 09- 28 15:16 (updated on 2010- 09- 28 15:16)- with 0 comment(s)
I'm sorry about the quick and uninformative post, but I've been almost 2 weeks without Internet and I have to finish the first complete draft of my thesis in a little more than a week, so I don't have much time to write here.
The thing is, to avoid the nasty effect of memory usage being too high for certain programs when using eager allocation, I've made the GC minimize the heap more often. Even when some test are still a little slower with CDGC, but that's only for tests that only stress the GC without doing any actual work, so I think it's OK, in that cases the extra overhead of being concurrent is bigger than the gain (which is inexistent, because there is nothing to do in parallel with the collector).
Finally, I've implemented early collection, which didn't proved very useful, and tried to keep a better occupancy factor of the heap with the new min_free option, without much success either (it looks like the real winner was eager allocation).
I'm sorry I don't have time to show you some graphs this time. Of course the work is not really finished, there are plenty of things to be done still, but I think the GC have come to a point where it can be really useful, and I have to finish my thesis :)
After I'm done, I hope I can work on integrating the GC in Tango and/or Druntime (where there is already a first approach done by Sean Kelly).