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Rik van Riel's Talk

Posted Jul 29, 2003 8:49 UTC (Tue) by dancres (guest, #4360)
In reply to: Rik van Riel's Talk by walters
Parent article: Trip report: the Ottawa Linux Symposium

I tend to agree but the number of objects traversed at any point is also dependent on the algorithm chosen. Certain types of GC will be far worse in respect of this behaviour than others.

I'd sure be interested in hearing Rik "name and shame" the various VM implementations.

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Rik van Riel's Talk

Posted Jul 30, 2003 20:06 UTC (Wed) by stuart2048 (subscriber, #6241) [Link]

For years I have dreamt of a Java environment that, instead of
relying on the OS to blindly manage pages, integrates the paging
system directly into the object heap. So that the Java VM pages
objects, or parts of objects that aren't being used (but are
not quite garbage yet).

Of course I expect some of you will tell me this was implemented
30 years ago in some other language ;-)