Yep. The wiki should be modified — it is pretty clearly an old page in error. Good eye on spotting it.

There is some extremely detailed material on the GHC developers wiki: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Storage/GC

I would hope that the material on the main Haskell Wiki could be at an “intermediate” level — a bit of high-level overview, with pointers to other good material.

Cheers,
Gershom


On July 8, 2015 at 10:11:47 AM, Kostiantyn Rybnikov (k-bx@k-bx.com) wrote:
> I would suggest posting this to ghc-devs.
> 7 лип. 2015 07:54 "Kyle Miller" пише:

>
> > I have been studying the garbage collection algorithms used in GHC, and it
> > appears to me that section two of [1] is misleading, since thunks permit
> > controlled mutation of the heap, and so objects in older generations may
> > point to younger objects. In fact, the RTS maintains "remembered sets" to
> > keep track of these relations. A Haskell could in principle be implemented
> > in the way described (and execute in surprising complexity classes), but
> > this does not seem to match reality.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Memory_Management
> >
> > Should the wiki be modified?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kyle Miller
> >
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