Re: Garbage collection

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 09:22 AM, Russell Y. Webb wrote:
> Personally, I think the best (and most Lua-like) solution is to make 
> the garbage collector completely modular with a published way to 
> redefine it with appropriate hooks (many of which can be empty) to 
> define most any scheme.

That might not be possible as some collectors require write and/or read 
barriers(you need to tell them when a reference is added or read). 
Putting in these barriers and leaving hooks to them would cost too much 
in overhead. You could avoid the unused hook overhead with defines, but 
still, you'd add a lot of complexity to the C bindings that likely 
wouldn't be used.

Cheers,
Steve
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