Re: Forthcoming revisions to the garbage collector; crazy huge hack
>>>> "Nix" == Nix
<nix(a)esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:
Nix> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Ovidiu Predescu said:
> This sounds like a really fun project!
Nix> Absolutely. I like cleaning up ugly cruft, and the XEmacs GC layer is
Nix> really rather in need of a good clean, encrufted by sheer age.
Nix> [typed memory]
> It turns out however that describing memory layout however is not
an
> easy task.
Actually, with Richard's changes, this particular part is trivial:
there are only two sorts of objects, those containing only consecutive
descriptors, and those containing only bitmap data not relevant to the
GC. No more type-specific mark functions, and trivial tracing.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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