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Re: [Gc] Re: boehm-gc merge for GCC
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- Cc: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>, Ivan Maidanski <ivmai at mail dot ru>, Boehm GC <gc at linux dot hpl dot hp dot com>, Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>, GCJ-patches <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:20:48 +0000
- Subject: Re: [Gc] Re: boehm-gc merge for GCC
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On 11/17/2012 01:53 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> [CCing java-patches and Andrew too]
>
> I'm currently striving for something for the 4.8 release. Not sure if relying on
> an external library is the right thing to do for the 4.8 release.
Probably not.
> Currently boehm-gc is linked to libgcj as a convenience library. I remember that
> trying to link boehm-gc as a shared library did cause some performance
> regressions (although I think I did only check this in the early 4.x times).
>
> Please could you elaborate on the API changes in gcj?
>
> There is also a second user of boehm-gc in GCC, when you configure with
> --enable-objc-gc. I didn't check yet which changes are needed for that.
>
> Would it be possible to create a branch in the GCC svn, and then prepare the
> merge, and libjava and libobjc changes there?
Certainly.
Andrew.