LGTM. We should try to address Ivan's comments and get rid of the
workarounds soon, but I agree that we should try to land this now and
push it to a Dev channel release ASAP.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:54 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Drive by comments about this implementation. We should probably take
> this now to roll out a fix quickly, but then address the issue raised
> here about collection order.
>
> -Ivan
>
>
>
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/100344/diff/1/3
> File src/mark-compact.cc (right):
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/100344/diff/1/3#newcode588
> Line 588: // not receive a weak reference callback.
> In retrospect was that not always a problem even with regular
> non-external strings only being referred to by a sliced string in the
> symbol table?
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/100344/diff/1/3#newcode601
> Line 601: SetMark(symbol_table);
> The flipping of mark bits to marked and back to unmarked seems fragile
> to me. Currently this only works because of the order (symbol table
> walking being first.)
>
> Since we need to handle the symbol table in a special way. The direct
> references are not marked but any depending ones. Can we add a special
> marker instead? That way we would not be depending on resetting mark
> bits during a GC, which is an unneeded break of the assertions of the GC
> algorithm and adds unknown ordering dependencies in the marking steps
> making the code more complex.
>
> http://codereview.chromium.org/100344
>

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