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Array marking
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- Subject: Array marking
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 11:56:30 +1200
Why do we need a custom marking procedure (_Jv_MarkArray) for arrays?
Wouldn't it be faster to just allow the gc to scan object arrays
conservativly, thus avoiding the overhead of frequent calls into libgcj
during marking?
regards
[ bryce ]