On 13-07-10 11:32 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: > I've been thinking about what will be needed to support incremental and > generational GC in Rust. To be clear, I don't think we should block on > it now, but we should not make it unduly difficult for us to implement > in the future.
I figured we'd be doing the incremental-generational variant of mostly-copying (once we get mostly-copying working _at all_ -- we're a long ways from there). Trap on @-writes to heap, mask to page bits, compare generation numbers. With MMU or without, depending on environment. I assume you've read this: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/WRL-91-8.pdf yes? -Graydon _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
