Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector

Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by Jweb_Guru on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:06PM (#11972034)

It's also not exactly original to Go... the Ur language, for instance, employs a request-oriented collector (arguably, though the documentation claims it does not use garbage collection).

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Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by ezyang on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:01PM (#11972474)

Ur/Web uses region based memory management. Details are in http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/UrWebICFP15/ search for "memory management".

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Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by Jweb_Guru on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:19PM (#11973116)

Thanks for the link! I was actually at that talk :) To quote from the relevant slide:

* Transactions are integrated into Ur/Web at a deep level, so, whenever we run out of space, we can always abort the execution, allocate a larger heap, and restart.

* As a further optimization, we use region-based memory management, inferring a stack structure to allow freeing whole sets of objects at key points during execution.

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