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...t > the collector isn't tied to a specific language. Sure. So by design, type metadata is never necessary to access the mark bits. — Gordon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20070916/6a38e052/attachment.html>

Gordon Henriksen wrote: > Can you be more specific the algorithm for which you need type > metadata in a write barrier? No algorithms I am aware of perform any > tracing from a write barrier. > This one does: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs2/442/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.technion.ac.ilzSz~erezzSzPaperszSzms-sliding-views.pdf/an-on-the-fly.pdf > Write barriers are