[gclist] why malloc/free instead of GC?

[Enrico Weigelt]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:44:31PM +0000, rog@vitanuova.com wrote:
> > a) strings (and other objects which contain no pointers)
> > b) typed objects (we only have to know where pointers lay around)
> > c) untyped objects (must be treatened as an array of pointers)
> 
> pointers between b) and c) are gonna cause problems.
why should they ? 

i dont wanna build an allocator with strictly separated heaps.
the different heaps are for easy detection of the best scan method.
you can simply guess on the address, whether the object is typed,
untyped or w/o pointers.

cu
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