Re: Re: my garbage collector sucks

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> wrote

> "Greg Ewing" <[email protected]> wrote
> > Even with object locking, I don't see how you can get away with not
> > stopping the world while you're doing a mark pass.  What ensures that
> > the marker doesn't miss anything if links can be changing while it's
> > running?
>
> Duh!  I forgot that I already fixed this problem.  My write lock routine
> automatically marks any modified object.  This means than any object moved
> or touched in any way during the mark phase of garbage collection is not
> missed by a mark operation.  This makes sense since any object being
touched
> is obviously reachable anyway.

Now I see where this may not be sufficient.  Instead of posting a message
every 5 minutes as I think about this I'll have to study this in depth.  As
I said before, thanks for the heads up.