4 Jan
2013
4 Jan
'13
23:48
On Jan 4, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
On 2013-01-04, at 2:39 PM, Bradley Lucier lucier@math.purdue.edu wrote:
Marc:
What does this mean?
Add support for a SSB which will be used by the generational GC.
Brad
SSB = Sequential Store Buffer. The SSB keeps track of the assignments to heap objects. Assignments might create pointers from an old to a new generation. These "inverse" pointers need to be taken into account when garbage collecting a new generation (without garbage collecting the old generation).
Marc
This paper
https://bitbucket.org/GregorR/ggggc/src/0769d2c4cb90/doc/write-barrier.pdf
does some slagging on Sequential Store Buffers as part of write barriers. Any comments?
Brad