Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:35:49 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <6KSdnTwztJvtR0bSnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <_JmdnUu_Z-scJEHSnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:35:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="03ebLEozl+tXCe7JS60Feg"; logging-data="784"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19V35/pdwf+Hmcjfgufs04d" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:cTA0awI6qI9qdFrdNEaW+Psdbo0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15338 On 6/16/2012 4:14 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 6/16/12 12:24 PM, markspace wrote: >> On 6/16/2012 11:24 AM, Eric Sosman wrote: >>> Then I'd suggest Java may be ill-suited to your needs. >> >> >> For us production coders, that's true. Depending on how experimental >> Aaron's project is however, hacking the JVM may not be out of the >> question. What he's talking about certainly sounds more academic to me, >> so I'm sort of curious what methods he's going to use to achieve his >> goals. > It almost sounds like the Aaron may be better off using Event Loop style > architecture, with one event dispatch thread per CPU core. Allow the GC > to do what it does best, and have the operations be smaller and more > decoupled. I, too, am mystified about what he's up to. It's hard to reconcile an interest in tight control over GC with "Something that scales up efficiently to distributed computing" -- the aims seem divergent. Aaron: Care to share? -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid