[LLVMdev] open source multithreaded garbage collector suitable for LLVM applications?

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
>
>   
>> Does any know about some opensource multithread-compatible (or 
>> concurrent) garbage collector library, if possible suitable for LLVM?
>>
>> (I mean that I want several mutator threads; the collector can be 
>> stoptheworld or concurrent ....)
>>
>> H.Boehm's conservative GC is multithread compatible, but seems quite 
>> slow (allocation is about the time of a C malloc).
>>     
>
> It's true that the allocation path in the Boehm GC isn't as fast as
> some, but overall I don't think that the collector itself performs
> badly.  It's been carefully tuned over many years on a wide range
> of systems, and I think it's extremely unlikely that a much simpler
> approach will in generally result in better performance.
>
> It's ferociously hard to benchmark things like this, because it all
> depends critically on the allocation pattern of your application.
> A tuned precise copying collector such as those used in the HotSpot
> VM might do better than a more general-purpose tool, as you'd expect,
> but it will need accurate type information to do so.


I agree, but any LLVM user, since he is generating code, is able to 
provide the accurate type info you are mentionning.

Regards.

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