fork()

[Graham Matthews]

Tim Peters (tim_one at email.msn.com) wrote:
: OTOH, in a straightfoward mark-and-sweep GC scheme there will at least be a
: "mark bit" in each object header.  So under that, or under any form of
: compacting GC, the *entire live object space* will get copied, regardless of
: whether *you* reference anything in it or not.  So if RC truly sucks, what
: does that make GC <wink>?

But the reality is that copying memory can in fact speed applications
up! Think about locality of reference after you have copied all live
blocks to the start of memory.

graham

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