[cap-talk] Hybrid Cap Systems redux

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 19/02/2008, at 9.36, Sandro Magi wrote:

>Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>> Sandro: you have my concern backwards. My concern is that real-world
>> capability systems need to scale to terabytes of data. This exceeds
>> 32-bit spaces by a very large margin, and it exceeds available core
>> working set even on 64-bit system.
>> 
>> While I agree that GC "works", I believe that many of the GC-based
>> approaches will be pragmatic failures when they are forced to switch
>> from memory-GC to disk-GC.
>
>I haven't read much on disk-based GC, but I found this after a cursory 
>search:
>http://www.memorymanagement.org/bib/printezis96.html

I just found the following:


Incremental Garbage Collection of a Persistent Object Store using PMOS
(1998)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/munro98incremental.html


Concurrent, Atomic Garbage Collection (1991) 
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/340861.html


val