[bitc-dev] Pools in lieu of GC

[Geoffrey Irving]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Geoffrey Irving <irving at naml.us> wrote:
>> I apologize for my confusion.  I interpreted one of your past comments
>> as applying to the present, instead of being about the eventual goal.
>> I'll try to avoid making similarly inaccurate assumptions in future.
>
> No worries. I was looking forward to using your collector.
>
> The problem with this on iPhone will be dealing with SDKs that pass
> pointers around to C code. Given the restrictions on the API, that may
> not be so bad.

I'm not sure I'd get around to implementing one, but I'd love to read
through past work on type-directed collectors if they exist.  Can you
point me to any starting points?  This is interesting even ignoring
the garbage collector bit, since I'm generally curious about systems
which carry around types at runtime.

Thanks,
Geoffrey