They may have gone a custom route to avoid certain business relative issues... Who knows what goes on in their slack times / meetings! From what you can make of MMgc, does it look worthy? Or is it young and flightless?

Lee





Quoting Joe Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

--- Joe Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Matt Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have taken a cursory look at the Tamarin source tree, and I observe
> that Tamarin's GC is in a separate module called MMgc (the MM probably
> stands for Macromedia).  MMgc is written in C++ and has a C++ API, but
> it may still be a useful alternative to Boehm GC.  It begs the question
> of why Macromedia/Adobe didn't use Boehm GC, given how long that package
> has been around.

I'm guessing that MMgc is a precise collector.

...and I guessed wrong - MMgc is a conservative mark/sweep collector:

  http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/MMgc#Conservative_Collection

go figure.




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