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Re: GC and threads (was Re: generational GC)
Miroslav Silovic writes:
Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> The key point here is that it is impossible for a recent cell to
> reference a non-recent cell unless that non-recent cell was also
> accessible from the thread's stack and global starting points at the
> time that the cycle counter was incremented.
Actually, the problem are non-recent cells referencing recent cells,
not the other way around.
Why is that a problem, given that the recent cells are not collected?
(This time around; next time around they will not be recent any more,
and will be collectible.)
Neil