Jan. 20, 2010
6:01 a.m.
"Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> writes:
Randal> Parrot's GC suffers from having many different kinds of mixed objects. Randal> http://wknight8111.blogspot.com/2010/01/boehm-in-parrot.html And worse, having untyped data blobs on a stack... that's probably the worst thing there. If you can't tell what live pointers you have for sure, you can't GC, and if you can't GC reliably, you lose. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion