On Friday, 26 December 2014 at 00:05:49 UTC, Xinok wrote:
On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 20:00:43 UTC, Martin Nowak
wrote:
On Thursday, 25 December 2014 at 14:55:32 UTC, Xinok wrote:
Ah OK, thought you had problems with stale stack values.
False pointers were discussed here
https://youtu.be/LQY1m_eT37c?t=23m0s, but it's an issue that
only affects few programs (32-bit with floats or random data
in GC scanned memory). So unless we can use precise GC info to
speed up marking, it will be a lot of work with little impact,
even more since we have Win64 support.
Any program that processes significant amounts of information,
such as scientific data, images, or videos, is likely to
experience issues with the conservative GC.
Would a well supported RC scheme be better than a precise GC for
these use cases?
