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Re: GCJ and Boehm GC "Incremental Collection"

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Hans Boehm <Hans dot Boehm at hp dot com>
Cc: "Craig A. Vanderborgh" <craigv at voxware dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:53:46 +0000
Subject: Re: GCJ and Boehm GC "Incremental Collection"
References: <4394D35D.4040908@voxware.com> <Pine.GHP.4.58.0512052220540.25229@tomil.hpl.hp.com>

Hans Boehm writes:
 > 
 > The difficulty comes with tracking updates during marking.  We
 > normally do that by relying on the virtual memory system, often by
 > protecting oages and then catching faults.

A page fault for every heap write?

Andrew.

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