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Re: [tree-ssa] Garbage collector x bb annotations
Hello,
> >:-) But really, getting things slower just because we are lazy to write
> >10 more lines of code is not a great idea. I agree there is a terrible
> >mess in memory allocation in gcc, and having this all done by garbage
> >collector would be great, but we should first have a good one (btw.
> >what
> >I always wondered -- is there not somewhere floating some decent free
> >garbage collector that could be used?)
>
> Boehm's is slower than what we've got now.
>
> I'm working on hybrid copying + mark and sweep.
>
> If you *really* want to improve the gc, however, we need compiler
> support.
what kind of support do you have in mind?
Zdenek