From: Shugo Maeda <shugo@...>
Date: 2008-11-13T11:20:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19904] Re: Status of copy-on-write friendly garbage collector

Hi,

2008/11/12 Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com>:
> I'm curious how compaction could even be added while keeping extension
> support compatible. There's numerous places where you get access to "real"
> pointers to memory, and all that code would break with a compacting GC.

Mr. Ugawa is working for that.  His implementation is based on Bartlett's
mostly-copying GC, and does not copy objects referenced by ambiguous
pointers.

-- 
Shugo Maeda