Hello Christopher,
It would be cool if the GC could watch for what pages have been
written to since the last collection and only bother looking through
them. That would require some additional accounting. On Windows,
there's a system call GetWriteWatch that works in that regard, but on
Linux, the only solution I've seen is marking the memory readonly and
trapping SIGSEGV. That would be pretty expensive.
http://libsigsegv.sourceforge.net/
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What is libsigsegv?
This is a library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs
when a program tries to access to a region of memory that is currently not
available. Catching and handling a page fault is a useful technique for implementing:
...
* generational garbage collectors,
"""
