← Back to context Comment by pulse7 2 years ago So garbage collection is not such a bad idea after all... 10 comments pulse7 Reply lwansbrough 2 years ago 1/3 of compute time spent on garbage collection is pretty inefficient! pjerem 2 years ago Well if it gives you an uptime of 80-110 years, that’s pretty useful. flancian 2 years ago What if it's garbage collection and NN training/backprop time?Then it starts sounding like a great deal to me at least. lelanthran 2 years ago Only in f it's exclusively for GC.If it's opportunistic GC, then it's simply running when nothing else is.IOW, we may need the sleep for a different reason, and that is when the load is low enough to allow the GC to run.Assume that we can trigger this while awake. This doesn't mean that we don't need to sleep for some other reason. steve1977 2 years ago Maybe it's comforting to think that the time is not only spent with garbage collection. That's one part of sleep, but by far not the only one. DANmode 2 years ago Have you seen this volume of garbage?! dennis_jeeves2 2 years ago It didn't get the memo on big 'O'. forinti 2 years ago GC with a time window. Maybe there's a paper there. aendruk 2 years ago Where sleeping is an acceptable cost.
lwansbrough 2 years ago 1/3 of compute time spent on garbage collection is pretty inefficient! pjerem 2 years ago Well if it gives you an uptime of 80-110 years, that’s pretty useful. flancian 2 years ago What if it's garbage collection and NN training/backprop time?Then it starts sounding like a great deal to me at least. lelanthran 2 years ago Only in f it's exclusively for GC.If it's opportunistic GC, then it's simply running when nothing else is.IOW, we may need the sleep for a different reason, and that is when the load is low enough to allow the GC to run.Assume that we can trigger this while awake. This doesn't mean that we don't need to sleep for some other reason. steve1977 2 years ago Maybe it's comforting to think that the time is not only spent with garbage collection. That's one part of sleep, but by far not the only one. DANmode 2 years ago Have you seen this volume of garbage?! dennis_jeeves2 2 years ago It didn't get the memo on big 'O'.
flancian 2 years ago What if it's garbage collection and NN training/backprop time?Then it starts sounding like a great deal to me at least.
lelanthran 2 years ago Only in f it's exclusively for GC.If it's opportunistic GC, then it's simply running when nothing else is.IOW, we may need the sleep for a different reason, and that is when the load is low enough to allow the GC to run.Assume that we can trigger this while awake. This doesn't mean that we don't need to sleep for some other reason.
steve1977 2 years ago Maybe it's comforting to think that the time is not only spent with garbage collection. That's one part of sleep, but by far not the only one.
1/3 of compute time spent on garbage collection is pretty inefficient!
Well if it gives you an uptime of 80-110 years, that’s pretty useful.
What if it's garbage collection and NN training/backprop time?
Then it starts sounding like a great deal to me at least.
Only in f it's exclusively for GC.
If it's opportunistic GC, then it's simply running when nothing else is.
IOW, we may need the sleep for a different reason, and that is when the load is low enough to allow the GC to run.
Assume that we can trigger this while awake. This doesn't mean that we don't need to sleep for some other reason.
Maybe it's comforting to think that the time is not only spent with garbage collection. That's one part of sleep, but by far not the only one.
Have you seen this volume of garbage?!
It didn't get the memo on big 'O'.
GC with a time window. Maybe there's a paper there.
Where sleeping is an acceptable cost.