On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 01:26:14PM -0700, Terrence Cole wrote: > First, performance: this particular proposal would force us to visit > objects that are being swept.
This is an interesting ramification that should have been obvious in retrospect. > Our nursery design is currently such that this is not even > possible. This is already problematic for weak maps. We are able to > get around this using a few hacks, but it depends on being able to > do full mark and sweep GC's at some point. If we moved to a more > distributed architecture like G1, this would be a severe > limitation. I'm not even sure how concurrent GC will handle weakmaps > efficiently. The Java VM (where G1 was developed) supports weak refs. Any idea what is different there or how they managed it? Niko _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list dev-tech-js-engine-internals@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
