[gambit-list] Gambit-C and multi-core devices

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Wed Jul 6 16:24:26 EDT 2011


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 am
> > wondering 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



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