At 04:43 PM 8/16/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>DS> * There was some discussion about garbage collection, but it's not really
>DS> gone anywhere, besides to the bookstore. The current reference-count GC
>DS> scheme will probably go, though.
>
>Err, when did this decision come about. I saw some discussion but I
>didn't notice when it became final.
We came in with it, AFAIK. The deficiencies of perl's refcount GC scheme,
and the idea to replace it with something better, was one of the things
that came up at TPC. I've been treating it as a given that the current
refcount scheme will get the toss, though if a modified refcount scheme
will get us what we need, well, that's keen too.
It does look like refcount GC has a rather larger CPU impact than other GC
schemes, at least if the reference text I'm wading through is to be believed.
Dan
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