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Re: random thought re GC allocator
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: random thought re GC allocator
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 09:09:36 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:03:29AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:
>
> Zack> What do people think of this change?
>
> It's probably OK. But, is it really worth bothering with? If that
> one extra page really matters, we're not running into much in the way
> of GC issues... :-)
I have another, more serious reason for this change, having to do with
the size of the bit vectors. I don't think I can explain it
coherently at the moment, though, it's still just a potential idea.
--
zw I now propose to do a little a priorizing of my own.
-- Jerry Fodor, _The Mind Doesn't Work That Way_