El mié, 13-01-2010 a las 18:08 +0200, Igor Stasenko escribió:
> Can someone clarify, why WriteBarrier depends on compiler (new
> compiler or old compiler - not really important).
> I just wonder what compiler functionality its depends on.

WriteBarrier uses the class BytecodeGenerator that is part of the
package NewCompiler (that is currently on rewrite for the closure
images). Why it need it and how it use it, I really don't know. I have
only a vague idea of what WriteBarrier does, and as Mariano said, I use
Magma but never used or activated the WriteBarrier functionality of it.

Cheers
> 
> 2010/1/13 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Chris Muller <asquea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 2010/1/12 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>:
> >> > Magma depends on NewCompiler ???
> >>
> >> No, WriteBarrier depends on NewCompiler.
> >>
> >> Magma can, at the explicit option of the user, turn on the
> >> WriteBarrier option if the WriteBarrier package is present.
> >> WriteBarrier used to be self-contained, later it became dependent on
> >> NewCompiler.
> >>
> >> Unless the WriteBarrier option is switched on by the user, its
> >> presence or absence in the image (as well as NewCompiler) has no
> >> effect on Magma.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification Chris. It was strange for me that  as I used
> > Magma a couple of times and I never installed WriteBarrier neither
> > NewCompiler.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Mariano
> >
> >
> >>
> >>  - Chris
> >>
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