Re: Anybody who wants to port Boehm-Weisser Garbage Collector?

llothar wrote:
I think this is a critical piece of software because it is used by a
lot of applications and programming language runtimes.

Never heard of it.

Unfortunately only the most primitive mode is supported (single
threaded application - without any incremental) tuning.

Good, fast or cheap. Choose any two. OpenBSD has less of a focus on cranking performance or maximizing userland thread/process parallelism.

I was really surprised about this fact. I don't have the time and do
not know anything about the OpenBSD memory system internals to do it.
So i would like to see somebody volunteer on this task. There might
also some kernel patching required as incremental garbage collecting
does only work well with some more information about the dirty pages.
WindowsXP offers an excellent "GetWriteWatch" feature to do this,
there is AFAIK nothing like it in the BSD world.

Traditionally, if you want a port that badly you roll it up yourself. Did you try to build whatever it is you need?

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