... Interestingly there's been a discussion on caml-list about using 64 bit ints for doing money. With precision to the 1/1000th and using Vietnamese Dongs...
... According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_dong: As of November 9, 2005, the US dollar was worth 15,897 đồng. Given the size of the world's...
... Only the first post by a new member is moderated. Based on that post I either ban the member (if it's span) or approve the message and turn off moderation...
There was a thread a while back about garbage collection libraries. In the processes of cleaning up Io, I've moved it's incremental non-moving tricolor...
Here's a first version: http://www.dekorte.com/projects/opensource/libgarbagecollector/ Apologies for the thin docs. Feedback is welcome. Cheers, -- Steve...
... Yeah, the docs need work. What the heck are the "free" and "mark" callbacks about? And, most importantly, where's the Collector_alloc(numBytes) function?...
... The docs are adequate (though minimal) if you are familiar with garbage collection techniques. Steve's GC implementation is a mark/sweep collector. During...
... I am familiar with GC techniques, I have Jones and Lins, I've even read about Baker treadmills a little. ... How? What is it supposed to do? Why doesn't...
... Note this sentence in the Collector.h comments: To use, make sure your value structs begin with a CollectorMarker struct. Every object that you want to be...
... That's not how I read it. I think Collector_value_addingRefTo_() is the write barrier. We'll have to wait for Steve to explain. ... Yes, I had figured...
Steve, How should one deal with values on the stack? I don't mean objects allocated on the stack, but objects referenced by a pointer on the stack (and,...
... Ok, here's an expanded doc: http://www.dekorte.com/projects/opensource/libgarbagecollector/docs/ I've also put up a new release that adds a define for: ...
OK by open sourcing you open to code review so here goes. ... It is not incremental. You have a certain of marks per sweep and then force a finish to the mark...
... Hi James, Thanks for the feedback. If you look at Collector_addValue_() you notice it calls Collector_markPhase() every so many times it's called and ...
... So you are incremental for a while and then, frack it, let's end this collection with a stop and mark of all remaining gray objects. This is not an...
Hi, there ! This is to announce a new version of the Zero programming system: http://trevinca.ei.uvigo.es/~jgarcia/TO/zero/ Zero is composed by a virtual...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/langsmiths/message/1963?threaded=1, Max ... One language that is inherently very parallel (or concurrent would be the better...
... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/langsmiths/message/437?threaded=1, ... Not if by CSP you mean Communicating Sequential Processes (elucidated by C. A. R....
Hi, there ! http://trevinca.ei.uvigo.es/~jgarcia/TO/zero/ I've uploaded new examples of programming with Prowl (the high-level programming language for Zero),...
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