Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-11-01 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
thanks On Oct 31, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Robin Garner wrote: Done. This is issue #11. cheers Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Robin - can you post this to a JIRA please? geir On Oct 29, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Robin Garner wrote: In the garbage collectors I've worked with, the essential design is

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-31 Thread Robin Garner
Done. This is issue #11. cheers Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Robin - can you post this to a JIRA please? geir On Oct 29, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Robin Garner wrote: In the garbage collectors I've worked with, the essential design is: - 'new' allocates space on the heap. - The header of each obj

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-31 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Robin - can you post this to a JIRA please? geir On Oct 29, 2005, at 1:57 AM, Robin Garner wrote: In the garbage collectors I've worked with, the essential design is: - 'new' allocates space on the heap. - The header of each object contains a pointer (or equiv) to a per-class data struct

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-28 Thread Robin Garner
In the garbage collectors I've worked with, the essential design is: - 'new' allocates space on the heap. - The header of each object contains a pointer (or equiv) to a per-class data structure, that points to the GC map for the object (and virtual dispatch tables etc etc) - Reference fields in

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-27 Thread bootjvm
> [Original Message] > From: Robin Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Date: 10/21/05 5:04:55 PM > Subject: Re: Questions about GC implementations > > > > > Robin, > > > > Over the

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-21 Thread Robin Garner
> > Robin, > > Over the last few days as we have all been discussing > heap and GC, I have been growing mroe curious by the > hour about what you see as a design critique of the GC > hooks I defined. Perhaps I am taking it a bit too simplistically, > but all I did was define a GC hook anywhere an

Re: Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-21 Thread Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM
TED]> Sent: Oct 20, 2005 2:24 PM To: Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Questions about GC implementations Hi Dan, I'm keeping up with e-mail in between OOPSLA talks right now, so it doesn't give me much time :) I think I understand where the interfac

Questions about GC implementations

2005-10-20 Thread Apache Harmony Bootstrap JVM
Robin, You asked a number of questions about GC on this JVM recently. Have I answered everything to your satisfaction? I would like to discuss with you the possibilities for writing one or more algorithms. What are your recent thoughts on this subject? Dan Lydick