RFC: Reduce GC root set to speed up GC...

[Ranjit Mathew]

David Daney wrote:
> Recently there have been some discussions about GC performance issues.
> We are also looking at some things in this area.
> 
> One thing that Hans Boehm suggested was to reduce the size of the root set.
> 
> I have been thinking about how that might be done.  Here is one idea:

See also:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-06/msg00252.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2002-q2/msg00490.html

(Search for "jeff sturm root set" on Google if the links
are not available - gcc.gnu.org seems to be having some
problems today.)

Ranjit.

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