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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:22:52 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Thread stack allocation (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r Makefile  src/lib/libc_r/uthread pthread_private.h uthread_create.c uthread_gc.c  uthread_init.c)
Message-ID:  <378B137C.80DC1E1B@newsguy.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907121109280.19167-100000@sturm.canonware.com> <199907121853.WAA27876@arc.hq.cti.ru> <19990713023012.K6401@cs.rice.edu.newsgate.clinet.fi> <86673p7y28.fsf@not.demophon.com>

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Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> 
> Modula-3 really appears to be doing something weird, making half of
> the entries read-only.  A garbage collected language should actually
> be capable of doing a better job than a non-gc one.

Seems like pretty standard GC technique to me. Mark pages read-only
to reduce the search space for unreferenced data.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	I'm one of those bad things that happen to good people.




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