[m-rev.] Re: for review: conditional structure reuse for LLDS backends

Peter Wang novalazy at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 16:00:51 AEDT 2008


On 2008-01-30, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> [Pending bootchecks in more grades.]
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 15
> Branches: main
> 
> Implement conditional structure reuse for LLDS backends using Boehm GC. 
> Verify at run time, just before reusing a dead cell, that the base address of
> the cell was dynamically allocated.  If not, fall back to allocating a new
> object on the heap.  This makes structure reuse safe without having to disable
> static data.

Is is too early for a reminder about this one?

Peter

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