I need to write a garbage collector for an interpreter that will support concurrency, but I can only find information about garbage collection without anything to do with concurrency.
Are there specific methods for garbage collection of objects in multithreaded systems? Where can I find information on their architecture and implementation?
Maybe I'm just not understanding this well... But what would concurrency have to do with how many references to an object are alive? It either has living references or it doesn't; multiple threads have no effect on that.
I could see maybe having to trace out each thread separately to see what references are alive or not. But that should be just applying the single-threaded trace multiple times.
Also, why not just program your interpreter on top of a VM that already does all this? Like JRuby (Java VM) or IronPython (.NET) have done.