On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Geoffrey Irving <[email protected]> wrote: >> None of these reasons apply, since bitc is using its own type-directed >> garbage collector, not a separate conservative collector. Therefore, >> the garbage collection should be baked into the generated C source >> during translation. > > When did you write that for us? > > At the moment, BitC relies on Boehm GC. This was done to let us get > the research compiler running. It's clear that we need a precise > collector, and it's pretty clear that the collector(s) will be heavily > type directed.
I apologize for my confusion. I interpreted one of your past comments as applying to the present, instead of being about the eventual goal. I'll try to avoid making similarly inaccurate assumptions in future. Geoffrey _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
