Thought on limiting scope of GC

[Jerry]

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> writes:

> On 2/14/14, 3:28 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> Track says keep track of objects allocated after the track call, and
>> cleanup only looks at those objects that were recently allocated,
>> ignoring the rest of the heap.
>>
>> If you're saying that allocators will provide the means of doing this,
>> then that's fine.
>
> I'm thinking of something like:
>
> MyAllocator alloc = ...;
> alloc.installGlobally();
> ...
> alloc.deallocateAll();
> alloc.uninstallGlobally();

The difference is that I'd like the ability for some objects to live
after the region ends.  I.e. it's reducing the scope of the GC, not
temporarily replacing it with a completely separate heap.