Neil Davies
Ignoring, at least for the moment, all the issues of paging, processor cache occupancy etc, what are the complexity drivers for the time to GC?
It largely depends on the GC implementation, especially when you interpret "time to GC" as "time until you get control back", in contrast to e.g. "time to claim back (at least) X bytes (because you want to allocate something)". There's GC schemes that are usable in hard realtime systems, but I _very_ much doubt ghc's gc is. If you want to go real-time, you might want to have a look at Timber. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.