[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 65382] The JSC garbage collector returns memory to the operating system too eagerly

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65382





--- Comment #16 from Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com>  2011-08-02 12:51:10 PST ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> Have you considered using libdispatch or similar to avoid having a dedicated thread for this periodic work?

This is a good point!  dispatch_after() would be great here.  One thing that I'm not sure about is how easy it is to cancel a dispatch_after(); the Heap destructor will want to ensure that it can immediately prevent the scavenger from running again, unless it is currently running, in which case it should wait for it to finish.  This is very easy to do with threading primitives.

Can we rely on libdispatch being available on all of the platforms that WebKit runs on?  If it is, then awesome; if not, then I'm dubious about the risk/reward: the risk is that we have two different implementations of the logic for starting, stopping, and scheduling scavenging.  The benefit is that we have one fewer thread.  It's not clear to me that the benefit outweighs the risk.

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