Garbage collection book

[Martin Nowak]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:32:13 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 10/6/2011 4:48 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Which isn't wanted because of the binary size, right?
>
> It is a substantial size problem. There's also a performance issue - the  
> gc has to read those tables and iterate in a non-trivial way. For  
> example, if a struct has an embedded static array of pointers in it,  
> you'll need a way to embed a loop in the gc scanner.
>
Sounds like an interpreter :), with the garbage collector interpreting  
type infos as bytecode.

>
>> As this is also a requirement for precise scanning and runtime type  
>> information
>> couldn't a heavily compressed format be found for it.
>> Something not so weird as DWARF but using a mixture of source encoding
>> and tables to lower redundancy.
>
> Compression has its own problem - performance.