Thank you Than, Is go scheduler is responsible for running GC?

On Friday, 9 July 2021 at 19:14:43 UTC+5:30 th...@google.com wrote:

> >1. If we do not enable the gc (-enable-gc=1), GC assumes all the stack 
> memory blocks are pointed to the heap.
> >2. If gc is enabled, it inserts statepoints and generates the stack map 
> (by LLVM). Using that stack map, GC can find where the actual heap 
> references are located.
>
> Yes, this is basically correct.
>
>
> >As per my understanding, GC is common for both cases (still I was unbale 
> to find the source code for this GC).
>
> The GC is located in the Go runtime, the version incorporated into libgo 
> in gofrontend. See
>
>
> https://go.googlesource.com/gofrontend/+/01cb2b5e69a2d08ef3cc1ea023c22ed9b79f5114/libgo/go/runtime/mgc.go
>
> Cheers, Than
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 9:16 AM Kavindu Gimhan Zoysa <kavin...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> By looking at the source code, and other mail theads in group, I was able 
>> to understand the sopport of GC by gollvm upto some extend. 
>>
>> 1. If we do not enable the gc (-enable-gc=1), GC assumes all the stack 
>> memory blocks are pointed to the heap.
>> 2. If gc is enabled, it inserts statepoints and generates the stack map 
>> (by LLVM). Using that stack map, GC can find where the actual heap 
>> references are located.
>>
>> As per my understanding, GC is common for both cases (still I was unbale 
>> to find the source code for this GC). 
>>
>> I really appreciate if you can correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kavindu
>>
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