Re: Pluggable storage

On 2018-06-18 12:43:57 -0700, AJG wrote:
> @Amit
> 
> Re: Vacuum etc.
> 
> Chrome V8 just released this blog post around concurrent marking, which may
> be of interest considering how cpu limited the browser is. Contains
> benchmark numbers etc in post as well.
> 
> https://v8project.blogspot.com/2018/06/concurrent-marking.html
> 
> "This post describes the garbage collection technique called concurrent
> marking. The optimization allows a JavaScript application to continue
> execution while the garbage collector scans the heap to find and mark live
> objects. Our benchmarks show that concurrent marking reduces the time spent
> marking on the main thread by 60%–70%"

I don't see how in-memory GC techniques have much bearing on the
discussion here?

Greetings,

Andres Freund