SGen ready for early testing

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Mark Probst

SGen ready for early testing

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Hello everybody,

Our new garbage collector, SGen, is now at the point where it's ready
for early testing.  It's still a long way from being ready for
production use - it's still slow and consumes too much memory,
especially for long-running processes - but if you'd like to help us
find bugs, please consider giving it a try.  I'm especially interested
in cases where Mono crashes or hangs with SGen (other than for memory
exhaustion).  The simpler the test cases the better.

To use SGen instead of Boehm, configure mono with the switch
"--with-gc=sgen".  At this point it's only known to run on x86 and
AMD64 Linux.

Thanks!

Mark
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Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui

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Is this going to be included in 2.6 (as option along with Boehm) or it
will be in next release?
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Mark Probst <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> Our new garbage collector, SGen, is now at the point where it's ready
> for early testing.  It's still a long way from being ready for
> production use - it's still slow and consumes too much memory,
> especially for long-running processes - but if you'd like to help us
> find bugs, please consider giving it a try.  I'm especially interested
> in cases where Mono crashes or hangs with SGen (other than for memory
> exhaustion).  The simpler the test cases the better.
>
> To use SGen instead of Boehm, configure mono with the switch
> "--with-gc=sgen".  At this point it's only known to run on x86 and
> AMD64 Linux.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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> [hidden email]
> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Is this going to be included in 2.6 (as option along with Boehm) or it
> will be in next release?

SGen will be in 2.8 as an option.

Mark
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