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My understanding of write barriers is as an optimization.
That fits with my understanding of write barriers also. I do not
know for certain but suspect that MMTK can somehow be configured such
that write barriers are not required for correctness. Maybe Dan
Feinberg can tell the mailing list.
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From: Daniel Feinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: May 24, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [DRLVM] proposal to port MMTK to drlvm
To: Weldon Washburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something like a reference counter does not really need a write
barrier. They are mostly used when
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Date: May 24, 2006 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [DRLVM] proposal to port MMTK to drlvm
To: Ivan Volosyuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is good. The JikesRVM and MMTK code is also built like this with
an interface between the two
. One place contains an
empty function that does nothing and is replaced by magic, the second
place is in the
/rvm/src/vm/memoryManagers/JMTk/vmInterface
Those file should have the code you are looking for. These files give
an interface to the plan that is in use for the GC.
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