2010/10/29 Damien Doligez <[email protected]>: > > On 2010-10-28, at 23:48, Jon Harrop wrote: > >> How does OCaml update references in the stacks and heap when values are >> moved by the GC? > > > They are updated by the GC, of course.
can't the GC just put a new reference for it in a data structure? it has to physically move it? (i think you are referring to moving data to the older generation; it could be a tree or a linked list, marking what exactly is old) -- Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
