On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:38:23AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:17:42PM +0200, Alex Queiroz wrote:
Hallo,
Now that even smartphones get dual-core processors, I amwondering how can we use Gambit-C in a way to take advantage of that. Desktop machines with eight cores will be in widespread use soon. I know there is Termite but AFAIK it works by exchaging messages between different processes, not threads in the same process. Is anybody working on some solution for this?
I believe that Modula 3 now implements multithreading using pthreads, and they have a garbage collector. I'm currently investigating how their implementation handles garbage collection. Does it stop the world? Or does it manage collector concurrency.
It's a stop-the-world garbage collector, alas. Mind you, it's probably a lot more reliable because of that.
-- hendrik