[webkit-dev] [Block Pointer] Deterministic Region Based Memory Manager

Phil Bouchard philippeb8 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 4 22:02:45 PST 2016


On 03/05/2016 12:49 AM, Filip Pizlo wrote:
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> If you're right then you've resolved CS problems dating back to the 50's. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You haven't provided any evidence.

It wasn't easy to implement but it's done now so we can all move forward.

> Replacing our GC with anything else is going to be incredibly difficult.
>
> We aren't going to be compelled by a comparison of our GC to something else if it isn't in the context of web workloads.

So you're saying it's impossible?  Is there a design document I could 
start reading?


Regards,
-Phil
(Sorry if I don't reply... it's late)



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