Array marking

Bryce McKinlay bryce@albatross.co.nz
Fri Apr 21 16:54:00 GMT 2000


Why do we need a custom marking procedure (_Jv_MarkArray) for arrays?
Wouldn't it be faster to just allow the gc to scan object arrays
conservativly, thus avoiding the overhead of frequent calls into libgcj
during marking?

regards

  [ bryce ]




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