On Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 15:38:44 UTC, Tobias Müller wrote:
"Araq" <[email protected]> wrote:
The paper focusses on RC vs "tracing". My point is "tracing"
vs "copying"
is another tradeoff. Here is a mark&sweep algorithm:
- Trace live objects.
- For each dead object: Deallocate.
Here is a copying GC:
- Trace and copy live objects.
- There is no deallocation step. The old region is free for
further usage.
It's more like: ...
Your description is still naive and as such your post is more
misleading than helpful. My description is naive to get the basic
point across, I have no idea what the point of your post is.
