Re: Patches that will come...

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:28:58AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [ refcounting in XS ]
> 
> > To us the first step is to abolish the refcount field and let parrot do all
> > the refcounting via its PMC reference marking.
> 
> Is there XS code around that directly manipulates aggregates? E.g.
> 
>   AvARRAY(av)[i] = some_sv;

Yes. (The DBI and drivers for a start.)

> or is it enforced to use the interface:
> 
>   Perl_av_store(av, i, some_sv);

No. But active module maintainers would make that change to ease
migration if it was required.

> For the former there are possiblities that an incremental or
> generational GC scheme might break. This problem could arise with any
> kind of aggregate stores.

Tim.