[LLVMdev] More Garbage Collection Questions

[Chris Lattner]

I'm way behind, but slowly catching up on email,

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Talin wrote:
>> Okay. If you're implementing this algorithm with a tagless collector,
>> we may need to extend the intrinsics.

> More accurately, what I am trying to do is not only create a collector,
> but also create a framework for implementing different collector
> algorithms. I don't intend to be the person that creates the
> best/fastest collector, I just want to create something that people can
> build on.
>
> There are a lot of algorithms out there that require similar underlying
> data structures - an efficient heap, lock-free work queues, and so on. I
> figure if I can provide those along with a working example, it may help
> to stimulate further development.

This is very exciting stuff, thank you for working on this!  I strongly 
suggest taking a look at the work Gordon has done recently, with luck I 
will get time to review it and merge it in this week.

-Chris

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