Hi Alexei, This issue came up when I was trying to match interfaces of Harmony GC_Gen and Parrot. It seems that the Parrot GC is aware on whether COW is used.
ex:- clear_cow, used_cow in dod.h It seems that it maintains a COW ref count etc. Regards, Senaka On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Alexei Fedotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Senaka, > > Copy-on-write semantics is used for native strings, see unistr.h If GC > would use copy-on-write, this would be rather implementation than > interface. Why do you need this info? > > Thanks. > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Senaka Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Need info on copy-on-write support on Harmony. I tried grepping the > source > > but didn't uncover any related info. I also tried googling which was > not > > that helpful. I would like to know whether Harmony has this feature? > and a > > possible hint on where I should be looking would be really helpful. > > > > Regards, > > Senaka > > > > > > -- > With best regards, > Alexei >
