On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:03:03 -0500
Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I don't know what you mean by "access memory in random order to
> iterate over known objects".  obmalloc never needs to iterate over
> known objects - indeed, it contains no code capable of doing that..
> Our cyclic gc does, but that's independent of obmalloc.

It's not.  Cyclic GC needs its own linked lists *because* the allocator
doesn't allow it to iterate over allocated objects.

Regards

Antoine.
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