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Subject: Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:34:31 -0700
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On 6/16/2012 1:14 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 dunno.  Phase 1 of his little project might just be to implement a 
regular old multi-threaded program in Java (probably one with some 
specific characteristics that he's interested in).

Phase 2 might be to modify his local JVM and show that his special 
GC/threading model produces some specific improvement(s), while running 
the same byte codes as phase 1.

That's what I'd do, if I had the resources....