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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Better support for garbage collection
Date: 15 Mar 2001 17:36:55 +0100
Date: 2001-03-15T17:36:55+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pufjkmzc.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccpufjp13t.fsf@world.std.com

Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> 
> > This is solved by double indirection.  Access values are not
> > addresses, but opaque handles.  The compiler is expected to lock the
> > handle to obtain the actual address.
> 
> Ah, so it's sort of like the original implementation of Smalltalk-80 --
> an array of addresses of "instances", and a pointer to an instance
> actually contains the array index?

I don't know about Smalltalk-80, but the same scheme was implemented
on Windows 2.x and 3.x. Of course, with the advent of the 286 and
especially the 386 and virtual memory management, nobody bothered to
unlock the local or global heap anymore.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-15 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-13 18:37 Better support for garbage collection Nick Roberts
2001-03-14  8:16 ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-14 18:52   ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-14 19:40     ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-15 13:18       ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-14 19:29 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-14 20:59   ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-16 16:42     ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17  6:13       ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-03-24  4:08       ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-15  4:35   ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-15 21:37     ` Randy Brukardt
2001-03-15 22:36     ` Stephen Leake
2001-03-16 16:26     ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 16:59       ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-16 17:31         ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 18:29           ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-17  2:30           ` Nick Roberts
2001-03-17 21:59             ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 22:57             ` Static typing (Was Re: Better support for garbage collection) Brian Rogoff
2001-03-17 23:45               ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-18  0:58                 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-19 15:24                   ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-20  4:21                     ` Brian Rogoff
2001-03-21  1:32                       ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-21 13:28                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-22  2:08                           ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-22 16:40                             ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-25 16:21                               ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-25 16:56                                 ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-25 22:31                                 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-27  0:24                                   ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-28 23:15                                     ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-29  5:02                                       ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-29  6:13                                         ` David Starner
2001-03-29 10:10                                           ` AG
2001-03-29 14:28                                           ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-29 23:46                                         ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-30  3:41                                           ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-30 21:21                                             ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-31 19:30                                               ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-02 15:27                                                 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-02 23:29                                                   ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-30 21:29                                             ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-30  9:16                                           ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-30  9:51                                             ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-02  8:54                                               ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-30 16:13                                             ` Ken Garlington
2001-04-02 11:00                                               ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-30 20:44                                             ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-04-02 11:29                                               ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-04-02 13:15                                                 ` Robert A Duff
2001-04-03  8:57                                                   ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-03-27  2:39                             ` Andrew Berg
2001-03-27  3:33                               ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-27 14:23                                 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-27 23:36                                   ` Ken Garlington
2001-03-29 23:50                       ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-19 18:24       ` Better support for garbage collection Tucker Taft
     [not found]   ` <87bsr46kxv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
2001-03-15 14:18     ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 16:36       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-03-14 22:05 ` Laurent Guerby
2001-03-16 16:47   ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-16 19:46     ` Laurent Guerby
2001-03-16 20:10       ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 13:14         ` Support for per allocation pool selection (was: Better support for garbage collection) Laurent Guerby
2001-03-17 17:06           ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-17 19:19           ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-17 21:10             ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-15 17:56 ` Better support for garbage collection Ray Blaak
2001-03-21 16:15 ` Implementing C/C++ style #include bhazzard
2001-03-21 16:45   ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 15:13     ` Ira D. Baxter
2001-03-22 15:23       ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-25 15:45         ` Anton Gibbs
2001-03-26 14:24           ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-26 15:00             ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 14:49           ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 18:19             ` Stephen Leake
2001-03-26 18:44               ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-26 21:44                 ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-27  3:02                   ` Andrew Berg
2001-03-27  3:27                     ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27 17:41                   ` Pascal Obry
2001-03-26 19:18               ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-27 18:51                 ` Anton Gibbs
2001-03-26 19:35               ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 23:04                 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-03-27 14:38                   ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-26 16:12           ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-26 17:34             ` David Starner
2001-03-26 22:25               ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-27  3:29                 ` David Starner
2001-03-26 18:23             ` Stephen Leake
2001-03-26 22:34               ` Florian Weimer
2001-03-27  7:34         ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-03-27 12:43           ` Dale Stanbrough
2001-03-27 14:40             ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-27 15:01             ` Ted Dennison
2001-03-27 13:20           ` Preben Randhol
2001-03-23 17:39       ` Wes Groleau
2001-03-21 18:07   ` Mark Lundquist
2001-03-22 12:50   ` Chris M. Moore
2001-03-22 14:30     ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 21:15       ` singlespeeder
2001-03-22 21:42         ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-23 14:43           ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-03-23 18:51             ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 15:02     ` Pat Rogers
2001-03-22 15:28       ` Marin David Condic
2001-03-22 16:32       ` Chris M. Moore
2001-03-22 16:57       ` Robert A Duff
2001-03-26 16:13   ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-26 22:55   ` Phaedrus
2001-03-27  1:36     ` tmoran
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