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From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
To: rth@cygnus.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: an experiment with garbage collection
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 15:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199805092149.WAA26982@phal.cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980509012500.06283@dot.cygnus.com>

>   (1) We will only garbage collect rtl and trees.  Everything else 
>       will eventually be converted to use plain malloc/free.

I don't think that makes sense.  In some cases, there are actaully a lot
of small temporary allocations of non-tree non-rtl objects which
are to be released together; these are most easily handled whith obstacks.

Just cut the obstack usage down to such applications where they are
a natural fit.

  reply	other threads:[~1998-05-09 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-05-09  3:34 Richard Henderson
1998-05-09 15:57 ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
1998-05-09 21:03   ` Richard Henderson
1998-05-09 22:13   ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-05-09 15:57 ` Francois-Rene Rideau
1998-05-09 11:03   ` Richard Henderson
1998-05-09 16:35 ` John Carr
1998-05-09 16:35   ` Richard Henderson
1998-05-09 21:03   ` David S. Miller
1998-05-10 18:07 Michael Meissner
1998-05-11 15:07 Mike Stump

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