GC performance - was Re: [gclist] GC topics

[Manoranjan Satpathy]

>
>Writing our own precise GC has so far consumed the work of one honours
>thesis and two summer studentships (i.e. about 6 man-months of work),
>and it still isn't complete.

   I am sorry to ask you this question.

   What is the dieeerence between precise GC and conservative GC.

   Do you mean compile-time-gc is included within precise GC?

  and standard mark-scan-sweep, copying collectors are conservative?

Regards.
M. Satpathy
IIT Bombay