From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 13 4:44:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1CFF14C90 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id UAA10235; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 20:44:08 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <378B137C.80DC1E1B@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:22:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Cc: Alan Cox , 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) References: <199907121853.WAA27876@arc.hq.cti.ru> <19990713023012.K6401@cs.rice.edu.newsgate.clinet.fi> <86673p7y28.fsf@not.demophon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org I'm one of those bad things that happen to good people. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message