From: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:15:33 +0100
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 10:32:32PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
> For the record, is it acceptable in Parrot to use page
> write-protection to record whether oldspace objects have been modified
> since the last full GC? This is what CMUCL does on most ports, but it
> occurs to me that this might be a porting headache for Parrot.
It's not a porting headache if it's not the only option. If it's
viable to use a different, slower strategy where this is not
available, or a different GC, then parrot will still run.
Nicholas Clark
Very true. But someone still has to decide whether the disadvantages
(greater code volume, platform-dependent bugs) are acceptable.
-- Bob
