Re: [rust-dev] tree maintenance

2013-06-18 Thread Thad Guidry
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Graydon Hoare gray...@mozilla.com wrote: On 13-06-17 06:21 PM, Thad Guidry wrote: Nice. Will there also be a Snapshot for 64 bit Windows ? Unfortunately nobody has spent the requisite time to enable the mingw-w64 port yet. I saw some rumblings of it but

[rust-dev] On tunable Garbage Collection

2013-06-18 Thread Matthieu Monrocq
Hi, I was reading with interest the proposal on library-defined garbage collection (by use of dedicated types), and I have a couple of questions. My main worry, and thus question, is how to handle cross-scheme cycles ? There does not seem to be anything preventing me to have a RcObject reference

Re: [rust-dev] On tunable Garbage Collection

2013-06-18 Thread Bill Myers
For Rc, it should be enough to have the GC traverse raw pointers that have/don't have a special attribute (probably traversing by default is the best choice), as long as the raw pointers have the correct type. Obviously it only makes sense to traverse types if it is possible for them to point

Re: [rust-dev] On tunable Garbage Collection

2013-06-18 Thread Graydon Hoare
On 13-06-18 12:07 PM, Bill Myers wrote: For Rc, it should be enough to have the GC traverse raw pointers that have/don't have a special attribute (probably traversing by default is the best choice), as long as the raw pointers have the correct type. Obviously it only makes sense to traverse