On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Andy Dougherty<[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> > I'm afraid I don't understand. *Which* existing PMC storage space would
> > be re-used? Here's the current PMC structure:
> The only thing that the GC needs right now is enough storage for a
> single pointer, which can be used to arrange PObjs into a linked list
> of free items. See, for example, the structure GC_MS_PObj_Wrapper
> which is used in the MS GC right now for this exact purpose.
Ok, so that's effectively using "bufstart". There are also a lot of
references in src/gc/api.c (as well as lots of other files) to "buflen".
I don't know if they are necessary, but it's not obvious how to get rid of
them. And if both bufstart and buflen are needed, then we're back
where we started -- no space savings.
Please note I am not arguing either for or against UnionVal. I was
simply seeking a direct answer to the simple question
"What, exactly, are those structures supposed to look like after this?"
in order to help with the implementation.
--
Andy Dougherty [email protected]
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