Re: Run-time representation of classes

Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:05:48 +0100

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From: Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:05:48 +0100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-01-055 09-02-001
Keywords: OOP, GC, books
Posted-Date: 02 Feb 2009 19:16:41 EST

George Neuner wrote:


> Most texts cover basic GC and creating pointer/reference maps for your
> structured types. That works well provided the maps are simple and
> fast to decode (e.g., byte or word maps rather than bits). A slightly
> faster, but more complex, method is to generate a customized scanning
> function for each type that knows where to find embedded references
> ... not all texts mention this method.


Could you be a bit more specific about the texts, please? AFAIR, neither
the Dragon Book nor Jones/Lins, "Garbage Collection", or
Scott, "Programming Language Pragmatics", cover this. Surprisingly, I
might add.


Michael


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