On Aug 29, 8:32 am, Jason Orendorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Add thread-safety to MMgc using the Spidermonkey request model.
Is this compatible with incremental marking? I don't know the details of MMgc incremental marking but I fear the complexity, and overhead, of safe concurrent incremental marking. I would hate to eat a complexity or performance hit for thread-safe memory management that is very little used. We've already been down that road with thread- safe XPConnect. I suppose it might be possible to perform incremental marking on the main thread only, avoiding the overhead of concurrent marking. Also, how about MMgc's reference counted objects, would you make those thread-safe too? That sounds like another performance hit. Rob _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
