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Re: tools to make non-conservative GC feasible.

To: Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net>
Subject: Re: tools to make non-conservative GC feasible.
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 11:23:53 -0500
cc: hjstein@bfr.co.il (Harvey J. Stein), "Marisha Ray & Neil Jerram" <mpriz@dircon.co.uk>, Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au, guile@cygnus.com
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com


Greg Harvey writes:
> Personally, I'd rely more on the highly unlikely case of the
> conservative gc breaking, than the quite likely case of a programmer
> screwing up explicit marking

As I've noted, though, we *could* pretty easily build tools to catch
this automatically.

Perry

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