On Sep 6, 11:35 am, mhammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you are, I'm also slightly skeptical that "insisting" that > languages which want to play in our new playground be reimplemented on > a new virtual machine will be fruitful.
Me too. But there's a less intrusive option, which is to ask their VM to participate in a distributed mark and sweep algorithm using a common interface. This can be done without constraining the representation of the VM's objects. I understand that's still a major requirement, especially since the interface doesn't exist yet and when it does exist VMs will have to be retrofitted with it in sensitive areas of their code. But I don't see any possibility of collecting cycles across VM boundaries unless the VMs participate in some kind of global tracing algorithm. Rob _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
