[mercury-users] Shared memory

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Peter Ross wrote:

> We've been experimenting with forking processes versus creating threads
> to build a server here.
>
> The advantage of forking processes is that one has a single threaded
> piece of code and it seems that the boehm_gc runs much faster in the
> single threaded case (in one case 10 times slower for very heavy memory
> allocation code), the disadvantage is that we use much more memory
> as we cannot share data structures between threads.
>

Do more recent versions of the Boehm gc than we use make any difference?
(I seem to recall reading stuff about threads in the changelogs for
the 7.0alpha series.)

Cheers,
Julien.

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