[Mono-list] How stable is SGEN in Mono 2.10.9 and Mono 2.11?

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Ben <funnelweb007 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm working on F# support for Mono
>
> How stable is SGEN? The F# compiler runs 50% faster with it and haven't
> seen any problems so far
>

I'm always happy to know that sgen is faster than boehm on some workload.

Do you think SGEN is
>   (a) not to be trusted at all yet
>   (b) stable enough to use in the bootstrap process (where only people
> bootstrapping the compiler itself would use it)
>   (c) stable enough to use by default for anyone using the compiler?
>
> I guess the answers could be different for 2.10.9 and 2.11.
>
>
Sgen is not as solid as boehm since it did not receive a decade of
bugfixing and testing. So, if you need rock solid
stability over anything else, boehm is the right choice today.

Said that, sgen did receive a humongous amount of testing and stabilization
work over the past 18 months that I say
it should be stable to use by anyone. Sgen is the only GC available on
Xamarin's Android product, for example.

I suggest that you should use it and, if you find bugs, file them as they
will be fixed.
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