On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:51 PM, wrote:
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> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 10:15:08 PM UTC+2, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 1:00 PM, wrote:
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>> > I looked at the source but can't understand it well enough.
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>> > If I allocate a [1000]byte, or a []byte, I understand th
On Tuesday, May 1, 2018 at 10:15:08 PM UTC+2, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 1:00 PM, > wrote:
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> > I looked at the source but can't understand it well enough.
> >
> > If I allocate a [1000]byte, or a []byte, I understand the GC will need
> to
> > mark the slice/arra
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 1:17 PM, wrote:
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> That is all as I anticipated, but I don't know where this is documented.
The fact that the GC does not scan the contents of a [1000]byte is not
user visible, so it doesn't really belong in user documentation. I
would start with the long comment at the
That is all as I anticipated, but I don't know where this is documented.
Any chance you could point me in the right direction? Even in the source
code, the closest I could come to an answer was something to do with type
"spans", but I'm so unfamiliar with the terminology...
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 1:00 PM, wrote:
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> I looked at the source but can't understand it well enough.
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> If I allocate a [1000]byte, or a []byte, I understand the GC will need to
> mark the slice/array itself for collection. However, does the GC mark all
> the bytes within, and does the marking
I looked at the source but can't understand it well enough.
If I allocate a [1000]byte, or a []byte, I understand the GC will need to
mark the slice/array itself for collection. However, does the GC mark all
the bytes within, and does the marking phase attempt to follow all the
items?
Will the
