[LLVMdev] Marking *some* pointers for gc

[Philip Reames]

On 01/21/2015 10:00 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Philip Reames wrote:
>> There's lots of room to experiment with a gc-leaf function attribute, and -
>> in particular - the inference of such.
> I'm not sure how this would help: do you have optimizations that we
> can apply specifically to gc-leaf functions?
You don't need a safepoint (i.e. statepoint) on a call to a gc-leaf 
function.  You also don't need all of the explicit relocation in the 
IR.  At least in principal, this can lead to substantially better 
optimization.

Philip