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Hello there, I was wondering if anybody had some pointers on implementations of dynamic method selection (which depend of course on a particular language). The...
Sébastien Pierre
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... http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/labs/oocsb/papers/TRCS95-05.html This is for Smalltalk. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@... ^^...
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Hi all, I was wondering if anybody had pointers on how to write a simple, yet efficient garbage collector for embedded software (meaning that the GC should not...
Sébastien Pierre
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Jul 8, 2005
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... If you want to avoid pauses, a tri-color is the only choice I know of that doesn't suffer from the reference loop problem (of reference counting...
Steve Dekorte
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Jul 8, 2005
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... Are there any available implementation or specifications of tri-color GC ? -- Sébastien...
Sébastien Pierre
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Jul 8, 2005
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... Collectors aren't really plug-in items. They need to be integrated with your code. You'll need functions that know how to traverse the pointers in your...
Steve Dekorte
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... Ok. Do you have any nice papers on Tri-Color GC design and implementation ? ... If only I was a millionaire ;) -- Sébastien...
Sébastien Pierre
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Jul 9, 2005
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Since version 2.0 Squirrel has classes. They look like this: class Testy extends Bla { constructor(a,b,c) { } function something() { } membervar = 10 ...
Alberto Demichelis
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Jul 10, 2005
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I forgot, if you want to take a look at squirrel the homepage is http://www.squirrel-lang.org <http://www.squirrel-lang.org/> Ciao Alberto...
Alberto Demichelis
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Jul 10, 2005
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Try searching for "polymorphic inline cache". I think it's what you're looking for. I think it was due to research around Vortex but might have been before...
Steven Shaw
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Jul 10, 2005
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... Squirrel, ... crazy, ... value. ... Well, my first question is why would you treat classes any different from instances. It seems like there is no...
Mike
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Jul 10, 2005
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... I had "properties" like this in one of my old languages, but I've eliminated them as a separate concept. Rather than have "properties" which are a cross...
Steve Folta
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Jul 10, 2005
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... Not necessarily. The Boehm-Demers-Weiser collector is very much a plug-in item. It doesn't meet Sébastien's requirements, though....
Steve Folta
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Jul 10, 2005
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... AFAIK, that's a conservative collector that scans memory looking for pointers. Useful for debugging C applications maybe, but not a practical solution for...
Steve Dekorte
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Jul 11, 2005
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... Well, I've been using it for my languages, so obviously I think it's "practical". It's easy to allocate unscanned blocks for strings and such. You can...
Steve Folta
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Jul 11, 2005
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... Have you done any performance comparisons? -- Steve...
Steve Dekorte
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... At one point Hans had some performance comparisons in the papers about the library. It was quite good. There are threaded and non-threaded versions....
Kyle Hayes
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... Is that collector speed difference or overall speed difference that was not "an order of magnitude different". GC is typically around 10% overhead, so even...
Steve Dekorte
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... I did a trivial benchmark once, and Boehm GC was 15% slower than malloc. My GC was 3 times faster than malloc. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/...
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowal...
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... Squirrel 1.x already implements prototype style OO through tables and delegation. With squirrel 2.x and classes I wanted to create a system to facilitate...
Alberto Demichelis
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... Mmh! This is a very interesting solution. I'm talked with my colleagues and they seem to like the idea too. However I still have a problem. Squirrel ...
Alberto Demichelis
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... This is from memory, so... What I remember is that he compared the difference between applications using their own hand-written collectors and the BDW...
Kyle Hayes
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... Which malloc? There are multiple implementations. The one in GLibc shipped with most Linux systems may not be a good one for your usage pattern....
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... I actually read an interesting article <http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ papers/nosb.html> about the Kaffe GC. I found it interesting because it is detailed and...
Sébastien Pierre
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Jul 12, 2005
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... There's also one called the "Train algorithm". http://www.daimi.au.dk/~beta/Papers/Train/train.html -- Steve...
Steve Dekorte
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... I would be an unfair comparison to compare internal GC of Ruby or whatever with linking to the Boehm collector "without special hooks". Frankly, the...
Steven Shaw
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Jul 12, 2005
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... I'd look up Henry Baker's papers: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ Also, there is a book called "Garbage Collection" by Jones and Lins. I have it...
Kyle Hayes
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... ISBN 0 471 94148 4...
Steve Folta
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... [...] ... [Sorry, I'm about a month behind on this list!] I'm interested in how even games can be written to run on the Cell architecture. I was thinking...
Richard Jones
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Jul 20, 2005
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Thought this recent paper might be of interest to the group: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Drafts/Nier05bRevival.pdf Abstract. The programming languages...
Steve Dekorte
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