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2008 Feb 05
0
[LLVMdev] 2.2 garbage collector questions
...what LLVM _should_ provide. If you try to
implement an exact GC one of the most annoying bits is getting
information about your stack roots. Using a shadow stack is possible but
there are costs attached to it (in PyPy we observed slowdowns of around
5%) as well as implementation complexity.
http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2008/01/finding-gc-roots-using-llvm-or-parsing.html
> Just a head's up from an beginner/intermediate LLVM programmer. The
current
> state of the GC documentation makes it seem as if: "you just connect
the GC and
> it works". I'm sure that isn't the...
2008 Feb 05
4
[LLVMdev] 2.2 garbage collector questions
> LLVM currently lacks working examples demonstrating the use of garbage
> collection...
Hello,
if anybody has time, I would recommend putting a big disclaimer at the top of
the garbage collection page that explains that, for the most part, garbage
collection falls outside of LLVM's domain.
Right now LLVM advertises itself as "supporting garbage collecting", which
although