[coyotos-dev] GC as a helper process

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 09/01/2007 hora 15:49:
> I'm not an expert on GC. My suspicion is that GC is best done as an
> in-process activity. The compiler needs to help to get efficient write
> barriers, and that has a pretty tight coupling to the runtime system.

In fact, I was not really thinking about a generic GC, but about an
implementation-specific one. That is, Mono would have it's own GC, SBCL
it's own, and so on.

A generic GC would porbably not be worth the effort (and the
complication, and the bugs coming with it).

> Within the EROS-native subsystems, we simply use a different design
> discipline to begin with.

Do you mean you split up the design in small objects directly?

Curiously,
Pierre
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