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Re: dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)
- To: fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au, olson at mmsi dot com
- Subject: Re: dynamic library cost (was RE: libtool, java woes)
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:24:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, hans_boehm at hp dot com, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
<<You don't necessarily need such information for each PC location;
for example, for single-threaded applications it's enough to record
such information for each call site or heap allocation.
>>
There are other approaches possible. In Spitbol/370, the garbage collector
scans and interprets the code to determine what stack locations are in use
as references.