[cap-talk] Specs for our 'ideal' language?

[Ben Kloosterman]

>
>IIRC, the quantified cost of virtual memory is on the same order as the
>quantified cost of garbage collection (~30% of total execution time), so
>I don't think there's a clear winner here. The measured costs of GC may
>also be skewed as virtual memory adversely affects GC far more than
>memory unsafe programs [1].

Except GC can be mostly done on idle threads,  and in a lot of cases you
have both VM and GC.

Note GC's kind of destroy LRU algorithms by visiting every page during a
scan and will steal less active pages from non GC apps. So a GC with no
paging ( just like a cache ) is kind of attractive.

Regards, 

Ben