[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html
Chris Lattner
lattner at cs.uiuc.edu
Tue Jun 8 23:04:02 PDT 2004
Changes in directory llvm/docs:
GarbageCollection.html updated: 1.4 -> 1.5
---
Log message:
Minor tweaks
---
Diffs of the changes: (+5 -4)
Index: llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html
diff -u llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html:1.4 llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html:1.5
--- llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html:1.4 Thu May 27 00:52:10 2004
+++ llvm/docs/GarbageCollection.html Tue Jun 8 22:59:05 2004
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
</tt></div>
<p>The <tt>llvm_gc_allocate</tt> function is a global function defined by the
-garbage collector implementation to allocate memory. It should return a
+garbage collector implementation to allocate memory. It returns a
zeroed-out block of memory of the appropriate size.</p>
</div>
@@ -242,8 +242,9 @@
collection) reads or writes object references into the heap. In the case of a
generational collector, it needs to keep track of which "old" generation objects
have references stored into them. The amount of code that typically needs to be
-executed is usually quite small, so the overall performance impact of the
-inserted code is tolerable.</p>
+executed is usually quite small (and not on the critical path of any
+computation), so the overall performance impact of the inserted code is
+tolerable.</p>
<p>To support garbage collectors that use read or write barriers, LLVM provides
the <tt>llvm.gcread</tt> and <tt>llvm.gcwrite</tt> intrinsics. The first
@@ -519,7 +520,7 @@
<a href="mailto:sabre at nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a><br>
<a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
- Last modified: $Date: 2004/05/27 05:52:10 $
+ Last modified: $Date: 2004/06/09 03:59:05 $
</address>
</body>
More information about the llvm-commits
mailing list