[Haskell-cafe] An interesting paper on VM-friendly GC

Somebody showed me this the other day, and I thought it was interesting: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/f034-hertz.pdf Basically, "we designed a garbage collector which tries to avoid touching memory pages that have been swapped out to disk just because we need to do a GC sweep". Which is a pretty obvious thing to do, when you think about it, and has several obvious performance implications. Maybe we should think about how GHC handles this? On the other hand, their implementation uses a modified Linux kernel, and no sane person is going to recompile their OS kernel with a custom patch just to run Haskell applications, so we can't do quite as well as they did. But still, and interesting read...