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Re: GC questions.
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:
> > 0) smob cells don't age and so are scanned every GC (just like now).
>
> Do you mean only the cells pointed to directly from a smob? In other
> words if almost all of the heap is reachable from the entire
> collection of smobs, will the heap be scanned completely for every GC?
>
> (that would definitely suck, for LilyPond, at least)
no-no, I meant the cells which are smobs. so if the smob, in turn,
points to old objects, these won't be scanned.
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