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[Søren Renner]

So a variably compacting copying collector?

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:41 PM, <pragmatic-functional...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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 Hooks for generation survivors

"Jon Harrop" <j...@ffconsultancy.com> Jan 20 01:39PM  

Garbage collectors usually expose the ability to invoke a garbage
collection, control the parameters of the GC and to check which generation
an object is in.
 

 
It occurs to me that another useful feature would be the ability to redefine
the function used to copy an object from one generation to another. For
example, a binary search tree that survives the nursery generation could be
morphed into a sorted array for the old generation. Given that the binary
search tree has survived it is unlikely to die soon so it would make sense
to coalesce the subgraph into a single heap-allocated block.
 

 
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[Jon Harrop]

 

Do you have a reference for that name? I’ve never heard it used before…

 

Cheers,

Jon.