Google Chrome and process-based design
Fawzi Mohamed
fmohamed at mac.com
Fri Sep 5 13:06:33 PDT 2008
On 2008-09-05 03:06:24 +0200, Christopher Wright <dhasenan at gmail.com> said:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> Manfred_Nowak wrote:
>>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can read the whole story at www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
>>>
>>> On page 16 they mention "precise GC".
>>>
>>> -manfred
>>>
>>
>> Are you suggesting we should start talking about how this could be done in D ?
>>
>> -Tomas
>
> A major benefit of a precise GC is that you can turn it into a moving
> GC. Without a precise GC, you might change some random sequences of
> bytes to something else because it looks like a pointer to something
> you moved; not so with a precise GC.
well as long as you have unions, then you have to be *very* careful
about not moving them.
In safe D this is not an issue.
Fawzi
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