Re: perl6-internals-gc sublist

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

John Tobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I certainly hope this data layout factoid is still subject to change.

Having an SV have a fixed address is handy for C extensions.
The 'entity' has got to have some 'handle' to defines its existance.
If not the SV* data structure then what is it that defines the thing?

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Nick Ing-Simmons