On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 11:06 AM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: >Would it help to replace all uses of the term "scan" with "mark", in >connection with garbage collection? In the papers I've read on GC, >"mark" is the word I usually see, and it seems much clearer to me, >because anyone who knows the basics of GC knows that "marking" is needed >to prevent an object from being freed, whereas "scanning" could mean >anything.
That would help, I think. I guess I was associating "scan" with the "sweep" part of mark and sweep. Thanks very much for the clarification. Mike
