Re: Exposing the Garbage Collector

[chromatic]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 20:41 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:

> Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > It seems to me, that the way to get at all the instances of a class is to 
> > ask
> > the Garbage Collector to do the heavy lifting for us, and ideally I'd like 
> > to
> > see this exposed at the Perl level.
> 
> It's entirely possible that Perl will be used on virtual machines
> where this can't be done.

Will those VMs support string eval?  If not, Piers' *specific* problem
here mostly goes away.  How much introspection and intromanipulation
should Parrot guarantee on small or limited platforms in general?

-- c