Re: class gc & future gc interface

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From: Tim Wilkinson (tim@roan.transvirtual.com)
Date: Sun Jan 03 1999 - 20:16:21 EST


I suppose ther';s somce chance that starting tomorrow I'll be able to
catch up on what been happenin in 3 weeks I've been away (never mind a
week being a long time in politics - in free software its an eon).

Anyway, related to the GC issue - how exactly do other GC systems handle
the walking of kmown data structures? I'm sure there must be a number of
free ones out there that we could look at before picking an interface, and
we should try to avoid picking one whihc prohibits the use of specific
algorithms or implementations if possible. The one that usually springs
to mind at this point is the Bohm-Weiner collector (or possibly not, I can
never remember the name). I've toyed with the idea of using it with Kaffe
for at least 12 months but not found the time to do it. I'ts used in Toba
I thihnkand shows significant speed improvements over Kaffe's GC.

Tim


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