Excerpts from Galchin, Vasili's message of Wed Aug 06 04:09:58 -0500 2008:
Is http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GarbageCollectorNotes a reliable source of info on the ghc garbage collector?
The page seems to be a little light for the most part, and it does not seem to take into account the recent changes to give GHC a parallel garbage collector (which is now integrated into the HEAD as far as I can tell.) For notes on the new parallel GC, you will want to see this paper: http://research.microsoft.com/%7Esimonpj/papers/parallel-gc/index.htm You may also want to look through the GHC Commentary regarding the RTS, as I am sure it also contains information you will want to be aware of (there are likely many cross-cutting concerns): http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts In particular, the storage manager overview should be of interest: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts/Storage Hope it helps. Austin