On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:54:41PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 12:51 AM 9/18/2001 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > > Doug Lea's malloc is in the public domain:
> > > >
> > > > http://g.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html
> > > >
> > > > I don't remember whether that's quadsafe code but the first person to
> > >
> > > It is.
> > >
> > > Further digging found this comparison discussing malloc and gc
> > > implementations:
> > >
> > > http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~zorn/Malloc.html
> >
> >Whichever GC implementation we choose and/or write should be not just
> >quadsafe, but threadsafe, too. Ouch.
>
> Luckily we don't have to have the GC be threadsafe as such, if we're
There shall be No Way Ever for the user to use platform native threads
(just to complete their hobbies in addition to juggling live chainsaws
and electric eels)?
> careful. (And we will be)
>
> Been there, pondered that, have an answer. (Though, admitttedly, not
> necessarily the *correct* answer...)
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