From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2008-03-14T13:44:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

Hongli Lai wrote:
> More optimization updates. I'm currently working on pluggable mark table 
> implementations. This makes it possible to choose, during runtime, 
> whether to use the copy-on-write friendly mark table, or the classic 
> "mark table" (i.e. setting the FL_MARK flag on objects). Using the 
> classic "mark table" with this approach results in only 1% performance 
> loss (which is caused by function call overhead and can't be avoided). 
> I'll post a patch soon.

So the GC method could be dynamically changed to cow-friendly just 
before doing a Process.fork... very nice!

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Daniel