26 Jul
2013
26 Jul
'13
5:31 p.m.
Excerpts from Patrick Palka's message of Fri Jul 26 14:21:11 -0700 2013:
Looks like whitehole_spin is _not_ always 0. Contention just seems to be really rare.
I think the paper "Parallel Generational-Copying Garbage Collection with a Block-Structured Heap" can give some intuition on why contention is low. Edward