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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

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