Thanks! That was a very informative read.


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu> wrote:
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