[LLVMdev] Re: Garbage collection questions

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Sandro Magi wrote:
> I've attached the lazy ref-counting collector if anyone's interested.
> There are a few suggested enhancements in the source for those who
> might want to extend it, such as bounds for real-time constraints, or
> adding generations to reduce the overhead of filtering out the live
> roots. :-)

By the way, how are you testing this?  Do you have a front-end that is 
outputing garbage collected code?  If so, it would be very cool to include 
it and your garbage collector with the LLVM distribution, assuming they 
are smallish.

Alternatively, when you get happy with your refcount'd collector and are 
convinced that it is working right, lemme know and we can include just it 
with mainline LLVM.  Having a working GC implementation would be a great 
help to people using the LLVM GC hooks.

Thanks!

-Chris

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