Functional - Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

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Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural

Joachim Durchholz

2007-08-21, 10:07 pm

Jon Harrop schrieb:
> I think there are some strong arguments for putting GC in the OS. I wonder
> if .NET will move in that direction...

Difficult to do well. Different execution models can vary wildly with
their GC requirements.

Examples:

Some hand-allocate. (Unmanaged C.)
Some have a large heap. (Managed C, Java, etc.)
Some put everything in the heap, including the call stack. (Some more
exotic language implementations.)
Others would need a per-thread/per-process heap (Erlang).

Well, OK, MS never was particularly well-known for trying to achieve the
best solution for many cases, they usually opted for doing one thing
reasonably well and neglecting everything else (regularly drawing flame
from those parties who happened to need some of that "everything else"
stuff).

Regards,
Jo

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