From: Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <tolkiendili@gmail.com>
To: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How does OCaml update references when values are moved by the GC?
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:14:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinjx6YQ5j=VA4vTqG20iUh5+ZQoBYySj-6xkPX1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8277D889-83E2-4037-91B3-3EB5E9EB2EA9@inria.fr>
2010/10/29 Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>:
>
> On 2010-10-28, at 23:48, Jon Harrop wrote:
>
>> How does OCaml update references in the stacks and heap when values are
>> moved by the GC?
>
>
> They are updated by the GC, of course.
can't the GC just put a new reference for it in a data structure? it
has to physically move it?
(i think you are referring to moving data to the older generation; it
could be a tree or a linked list, marking what exactly is old)
--
Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva <tolkiendili@gmail.com>
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2010-10-29 7:47 ` Damien Doligez
2010-10-30 11:14 ` Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva [this message]
2010-10-30 17:15 ` Jon Harrop
2010-10-30 17:38 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-10-30 20:40 ` Jon Harrop
2010-11-03 9:49 ` Richard Jones
2010-10-30 20:40 ` Jon Harrop
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2010-11-02 10:25 ` Xavier Leroy
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