Thread local and memory allocation

[Walter Bright]

On 10/4/2011 1:22 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> Do you mean manage the memory that way :
> Shared heap -> TL pool within the shared heap -> allocation in thread from TL pool.
>
> And complete GC collect.

Yes.


> This is a good solution do reduce contention on allocation. But a very different
> thing than I was initially talking about.

Yes.


> Back to the point,
>
> Considering you have pointer to immutable from any dataset, but not the other
> way around, this is also valid to get a flag for it in the allocation interface.
>
> What is the issue with the compiler here ?

Allocate an object, then cast it to immutable, and pass it to another thread.