On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Andy Dougherty<[email protected]> wrote:
> Does this branch keep the pointer-to-the-middle tactic used in
> src/gc/alloc_register.c?  I never understood why that was considered
> useful.

It does, yes. The most important change is that Contexts are now a PMC
type instead of a custom structure type. This means that they are
garbage collected and not refcounted (and hopefully they leak less
memory because of that). Other cleanups will be coming in subsequent
branches and efforts.

--Andrew Whitworth
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