Dear GC'ers,
A dumb question from a novice but very interested reader of this list:
what's a "write barrier" and what role does it play in a GC?
Martin Jourdan
Avant-projet OSCAR, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France
Phone +33-1-39-63-54-35, fax +33-1-39-63-56-98, Martin.Jourdan@inria.fr
Home page and PGP key: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~jourdan