At 12:51 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain:
> > >
> > > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
> > >
> > > I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the first person to
> >
> > It is.
> >
> > Further digging found this comparison discussing malloc and gc
> > implementations:
> >
> > http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/Malloc.html
>
>Whichever GC implementation we choose and/or write should be not just
>quadsafe, but threadsafe, too. Ouch.
Luckily we don't have to have the GC be threadsafe as such, if we're
careful. (And we will be)
Been there, pondered that, have an answer. (Though, admitttedly, not
necessarily the *correct* answer...)
Dan
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