Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Robin - can you post this to a JIRA please? geir On Oct 29, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Robin Garner wrote: In the garbage collectors I've worked with, the essential design is: - 'new' allocates space on the heap. - The header of each object contains a pointer (or equiv) to a per-class data

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-31 Thread Robin Garner
Done. This is issue #11. cheers Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Robin - can you post this to a JIRA please? geir On Oct 29, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Robin Garner wrote: In the garbage collectors I've worked with, the essential design is: - 'new' allocates space on the heap. - The header of each

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-21 Thread Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM
, 2005 2:24 PM To: Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions about GC implementations Hi Dan, I'm keeping up with e-mail in between OOPSLA talks right now, so it doesn't give me much time :) I think I understand where the interfaces fit in, and (not to put too fine a point

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-21 Thread Robin Garner
Robin, Over the last few days as we have all been discussing heap and GC, I have been growing mroe curious by the hour about what you see as a design critique of the GC hooks I defined. Perhaps I am taking it a bit too simplistically, but all I did was define a GC hook anywhere an object