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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