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Re: [boehms-gc] Performance results
- From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol at gmail dot com>
- To: "Laurynas Biveinis" <laurynas dot biveinis at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "GCC Mailing List" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:30:04 -0500
- Subject: Re: [boehms-gc] Performance results
- References: <d1e3ff2b0607240145h1558bc59h61a6250150b14fd7@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/24/06, Laurynas Biveinis <laurynas.biveinis@gmail.com> wrote:
[How is it that setting pointers] to NULL can
actually increase peak GC memory usage?
I'll guess that during collection phases, the list of
collectible structures becomes longer.
GCC is just too huge to try and implement reference counting
just to see what it would do, right? All managed structures would have
to include a base class with the count in it and all new references would
have to be through a macro...