Re: Recognising pointers during garbage collection?

Sven Gohlke <sven@clio.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Why don't you look into the source? And why do you want to reimplement a
> garbage collector if you have an established implementation. Use the Boehm
> implementation (and if you find a bug or implement an extension distribute
> it to the Boehm source).




I have tried looking at the source, but found it heavy going because
of the generality of the program.


The reason I want to implement my own GC---or try to, for that
matter---is simply a matter of curiosity and a desire for learning by
doing rather than looking and nodding your way through all the tricky
parts of a popular piece of source code. It is purely a hobby project:
no funding, no nagging customers, just me. You won't hear me claiming
it will be 'The Best GC Ever'; I'll settle for 'runs without
segfaulting'.




Maarten

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