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Re: random thought re GC allocator


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_


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