[gclist] boehm (et al.) gc and assembly language [platform indep. x86 -- for now :)]

[jd marrow]

Charles Fiterman <cef@geodesic.com> replied:
|>:: has anyone looked into requirement/procedures for optimal exploitation
of
|>BGC?
|
|Huh??

i meant, more specifically, what -- if anything -- makes BGC perform
well/terribly... (for eg, and as a random guess, might it be profitable to
do BGC specific things like allocating large blocks that contain scattered
pointers as atomic, and creating blocks that contain packed copies of the
pointers?)

jdm