On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Boris Tschirschwitz wrote:
> I am still writing on my complex number class.
> When trying to add addition and subtraction methods, I came across the
> following problem:
>
> PMC functions writing results in a destination PMC like add(PMC *dest, PMC
> *val) overwrite the destination PMC's vtable and cache with new values
> without testing if it contains any old data that should be freed first.
> (see for example perlstring.pmc).
>
> Is this something I
> 1) shouldn't worry about, because the memory is cleaned--and I am just too
> stupid to see that
> 2) shouldn't worry about, because it will vanish with the addition of a GC
> 3) should find a soulution for, because it is a problem
#2. The GC will take care of that. We can certainly work to generate less
garbage in the first place, but the GC will take care of the memory pools.
Dan
