On 7/31/06, Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
El dom, 30-07-2006 a las 00:16 +0100, Alex Blewitt escribió: (...) > However, if the GC is generational, why does it need to be contiguous? Some (most?) implementations of write barriers for generational GC assume that all old memory is below or above all nurseries, so that the old->new test can be done with a simple address comparison. So, while they are not fully contiguous, they make some assumptions on memory layout, even if it is just for efficiency. Testing if a pointer is inside any of a number of memory areas for each assignment is a fairly expensive operation.
Extra bit/byte in object header can solve this problem.. -- Mikhail Fursov
