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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
August 20, 2004 12:13
Subject:
GC/DOD API
Message ID:
a0611040dbd4bfbdcca85@[10.0.1.2]
As part of the DOD/GC rework, we need to have a clean,
well-documented API for the garbage collector. Things were clean,
though not documented, for the original DOD and things have gotten
significantly messier since.
Part of the point of the GC/DOD rework is to allow alternate GC
implementations (which is why things like write barrier macros are
going in) but this can't be done without knowing what's going on,
so...
I think getting the API designed and documented *first* is in order,
before any actual work's done on the engine. Otherwise we're going to
end up with a mess, I'll end up reverting to prior CVS versions, and
there'll be mass grumbling. And we just don't want that. :)
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Dan
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