At 12:31 PM 8/4/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>DS> This seems a bit premature, given that we haven't actually come up with
>DS> even a framework for an API, or hashed out much on the format of
>variables
>DS> or the interpreter structure. (Nor the threading or event stuff...)
>
>Either the API or the internal representations should be worked on.
>They might be done in parallel.
Yup, and I realized one of my big problems to GCs that move memory
(references that are pointers and such) really isn't, if we keep the
two-level variable structure that we have now. The 'main' SV structure
won't move, while the guts that the equivalent of sv_any points to can
without a problem.
Dan
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