From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Languages don't matter. A mathematical refutation Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:12:25 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <874morfec6.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> References: <87h9t95cly.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <04f0759d-0377-4408-a141-6ad178f055ed@googlegroups.com> <871tk1z62n.fsf@theworld.com> <87oan56rpn.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <87k2xt6l1b.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <87vbh99d1z.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c694756f1077760bb5296aae16c74092"; logging-data="5201"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/23OJeWjrunyJGVQWakJO1" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KlVzbrXu3YC26IuW0XZM1UOQ3Ds= sha1:eZNTqthU0OOALRKWuzGPKSsqg/k= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:25459 Date: 2015-04-07T21:12:25-07:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > Saving FPU registers, any registers, as a matter of fact, is as much > pervasive. How is it high level? GC has to understand the layout of every object in memory, so it can know what to trace.