23 Sep
2008
23 Sep
'08
8 p.m.
Hi.
SquirrelFish seems to use a conservative garbage collector with two heaps - primary heap and number heap. Is there any plan to implement an accurate garbage collector?
Yes, we'd like to do better than a conservative collector. Are you interested in contributing?
However, I am not sure how much the gabage collector affects the overall performance of JavaScript.
The two cases where GC tends to show up are: (1) numerics tests that allocate a lot of number cells; (2) applications that have large object heaps. Cheers, Geoff