How has this many not won more awards for literally every performance he's done. I've never seen him in anything where he isn't amazing in it. Currently watching Friday Night Dinner and he should've been nominated for the character of Jim, especially seeing the character change so much from episode 1 to where he ended up, absolutely perfect performance.
He's still my ideal choice for a future Doctor (Who).
*Edit the kind of doctor for clarity
Hi to all! I have runtime in Rust called WaffleLink and recently I decided to redesign it to be more static and in future self-host it like JikesRVM did. When I started work on memory management there was one question: what GC algorithm to use? I've thought that lazy generational mark and sweep is a good option and it worked really well but it had performance close to using reference counting so I decided: why not write conservative on stack,preicse on heap moving GC? Solution for this problem found easily and it was Immix collector. It is simple to implement,allows for conservative roots on stack(no additional API is needed to track roots on stack) and it is possible to opportunistically move objects there when heap is fragmented.
This GC is not available as a crate but it is possible to release crate for it if someone will ask for it. :)
Performance
This collector absolutely beats std::rc::Rc with mimalloc,jemalloc and glibc malloc on all POSIX systems in gcbench benchmark which constructs binary trees: gcbench.rs.
Benchmark results for gcbench on iMac mid 2011 is here: benchmark results
Advantages over Rc, rust-gc and other crates
- This collector has zero overhead at mutator time. It does not use reference counting to track roots (it is possible to do this if you really need it using
Rooted<T>): you just allocate pointer and it can easily find it on stack and it can even sometimes identify GC object in references fromGc<T>type. - Gc<T> is copy which allows for easily passing it everywhere without cloning it.
- Moving collection when heap is fragmented. It helps a lot since it evacuates objects from fragmented blocks and puts them to empty one which speedups allocation after evacation cycle.
Limitations
- There is no finalization at the moment so GC does not invoke destructors if there is any
- It is not recommended to have pointers to other heap objects like
Boxorstd::vec::Vecinside GC object. - You have to reimplement std types that allocate on heap i.e Vec and HashMap so they will allocate inside GC heap, so far I have Array,GcVec and HashMap types implemented inside src/runtime
I watched a few clips of him in some other TV shows he's been in tonight and I can't believe how different he looks and sounds in real life! He was also in an episode of BBC Miranda which I've watched countless times, if I watched it after the amount of times I've seen him in FND, I still never would have guessed they were the same person! I think he should win a Best Actor award or be nominated for one at least!
Anyone else agree?
Personally I'd only seen him as the therapist in that episode of BBC Miranda. Haven't seen the episode in years now but I was flabbergasted when I learned he and Jim from Friday Night Dinner are the same person! This is why I think he's so incredible as an actor, because he can fit all different characters perfectly, and he's so unrecognisable in real life!
Just watching Spaced for the first time (it’s been on my list for years but COVID has made all my TV list dreams possible) and Mark Heap is one of my all time favourite comedic actors. Never have I been attracted to him before now?? I have no idea what to do with this info so thought I’d share with this group 😂😅
Fill and throw pee philanthropy, Phyll-Ann: trope E.
Miss and throw pee misanthropy, Miss Ann: trope P.
