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["Linas Vepstas" <linasvepstas@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/9/30 Lukasz Stafiniak <lukstafi@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> According to http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/scale.html,
> Boehm is not parallell, it has a global lock on each allocation, (and
> of course on the collection).
>
> Parallel GC is rather difficult; Haskell's GHC has it since recently;
> .NET has it.

I wasn't concerned about parallel GC, I was concerned about
parallel mind-agents.  I suppose that parallel GC would be nice,
but that's not the current issue, which is the inability to write
thread-safe mind-agents (and thus, lack of ability to have any
sort of sophisticated scheduler)

--linas