On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:11:20AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Every sub doesn't have to fit in a single segment, though. There may > well be a half-zillion subs in any one segment. (Though one segment > per sub does give us some interesting possibilities for GCing unused > code)
For an interpreter that is allowing eval (or a namespace that isn't locked against eval) I think that you could only GC the old definition of redefined subroutines, and any anonymous subroutines that become unreferenced. Anything else is the potential lucky destination of a random future eval. Nicholas Clark
